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Isaiah 23:13-15
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Isaiah 23:13-15
EasyEnglish Bible
13 Look at what happened in Babylonia. Its people have disappeared! The Assyrian army has made it a place for wild animals to live in. Their soldiers built hills of earth against the city's walls. They climbed over and they destroyed its strong buildings. Babylon's buildings became heaps of stones.
14 So weep aloud, you great ships of Tarshish. Enemies have destroyed your strong place.
15 At that time people will forget Tyre for 70 years. That is how long one king lives. At the end of 70 years, there will be a change in Tyre. It will happen to them like the song about the prostitute:
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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:
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- Isaiah 23:13 Or Chaldeans
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