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Isaiah 23:13-15
Contemporary English Version
Isaiah 23:13-15
Contemporary English Version
13 Look what the Assyrians have done to Babylonia! They have attacked, destroying every palace in the land. Now wild animals live among the ruins.[a] 14 Not a fortress will be left standing, so tell all the seagoing ships[b] to mourn.
15 The city of Tyre will be forgotten for 70 years, which is the lifetime of a king. Then Tyre will be like that evil woman in the song:
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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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