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Isaiah 23:11

Verse 11 of 18. The 23rd of 66 chapters in Isaiah, in The Major Prophets.

7Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?

8Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

9The LORD of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

10Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.

11He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. The LORD has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.

12He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.”

13Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people didn’t exist. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.

14Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!

15It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.