13 Behold the land of (A)the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not;[a] Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected (B)their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:13 Or that has become nothing

The Humiliation of Babylon

47 (A)Come down and sit in the dust,
    O virgin (B)daughter of Babylon;
(C)sit on the ground without a throne,
    O daughter of (D)the Chaldeans!
(E)For you shall no more be called
    tender and delicate.

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