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13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans (the Babylonians) a people now of no account. The Assyrians (a step) destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin. 14 Wail, O ships of Tarshish (yellow jasper), for your⁺ harbor has been destroyed! 15 At that time Tyre (a rock) will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot: 16 “Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.” 17 And at the end of seventy years, the LORD {YHWH} will restore Tyre (a rock). Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. 18 Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD {YHWH}; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing. Isaiah 23:13-18, Berean Annotated Bible. Public domain.
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