Add parallel Print Page Options

13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans,
these people who have lost their identity![a]
The Assyrians have made it a home for wild animals.
They erected their siege towers,[b]
demolished[c] its fortresses,
and turned it into a heap of ruins.[d]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:13 tn Heb “this people [that] is not.”
  2. Isaiah 23:13 tn For the meaning of this word, see HALOT 118 s.v. *בַּחוּן.
  3. Isaiah 23:13 tn Or “laid bare.” For the meaning of this word, see HALOT 889 s.v. ערר.
  4. Isaiah 23:13 sn This verse probably refers to the Assyrian destruction of Babylon.