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Isaiah 23:13-15
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Isaiah 23:13-15
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
13 [a]Look at the land of the Chaldeans,
the people that has ceased to be.
Assyria founded it for ships,
raised its towers,
Only to tear down its palaces,
and turn it into a ruin.(A)
14 Lament, ships of Tarshish,
for your stronghold is destroyed.
15 On that day, Tyre shall be forgotten for seventy years,[b] the lifetime of one king. At the end of seventy years, the song about the prostitute will be Tyre’s song:
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- 23:13 The reference here seems to be to Assyria’s subjugation of Babylon in 703 B.C., which left the coastal cities of Phoenicia as well as Judah open to Sennacherib’s invasion in 701 B.C. Founded it…its palaces…turn it: the city of Babylon.
- 23:15 Seventy years: a conventional expression for a long period of time; cf. Jer 25:11 and 29:10.
Isaiah 23:13-15
New International Version
Isaiah 23:13-15
New International Version
13 Look at the land of the Babylonians,[a](A)
this people that is now of no account!
The Assyrians(B) have made it
a place for desert creatures;(C)
they raised up their siege towers,(D)
they stripped its fortresses bare
and turned it into a ruin.(E)
15 At that time Tyre(I) will be forgotten for seventy years,(J) the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:
Footnotes
- Isaiah 23:13 Or Chaldeans
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