Isaiah 23:13-18 (New International Version)
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Look at the land of the Babylonians,a1 this people that is now of no account! The Assyrians2 have made it a place for desert creatures;3 they raised up their siege towers,4 they stripped its fortresses bare and turned it into a ruin.5
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Wail, you ships6 of Tarshish;7 your fortress is destroyed!8
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At that time Tyre9 will be forgotten for seventy years,10 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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"Take up a harp, walk through the city, O prostitute11 forgotten; play the harp well, sing many a song, so that you will be remembered."
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At the end of seventy years,12 the LORD will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire as a prostitute13 and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.14
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Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the LORD;15 they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the LORD,16 for abundant food and fine clothes.17
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