12 And he said:
“You will no more exult,
    O oppressed virgin daughter of (A)Sidon;
arise, (B)cross over to (C)Cyprus,
    even there you will have no rest.”

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22 and (A)the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters,
    will be heard in you no more,
and a craftsman of any craft
    will be found in you no more,
and (B)the sound of the mill
    will be heard in you no more,

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13 (A)And I will stop the music of your songs, and (B)the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more. 14 (C)I will make you a bare rock. (D)You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, (E)for I am the Lord; I have spoken, declares the Lord God.

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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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An Oracle Concerning Tyre and Sidon

23 The (A)oracle concerning (B)Tyre.

Wail, O (C)ships of Tarshish,
    for Tyre is laid waste, (D)without house or harbor!
From (E)the land of Cyprus[a]
    it is revealed to them.
Be still, O inhabitants of the coast;
    the merchants of (F)Sidon, who cross the sea, have filled you.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:1 Hebrew Kittim; also verse 12

Of (A)oaks of Bashan
    they made your oars;
they made your deck of pines
    from (B)the coasts of Cyprus,
    inlaid with ivory.

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15 “Away! (A)Unclean!” people cried at them.
    “Away! Away! Do not touch!”
So they became fugitives and wanderers;
    people said among the nations,
    “They shall stay with us no longer.”

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15 “The Lord rejected
    all my mighty men in my midst;
he summoned an assembly against me
    to crush my young men;
(A)the Lord has trodden as in a winepress
    the virgin daughter of Judah.

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(A)Judah has gone into exile because of affliction[a]
    and hard servitude;
(B)she dwells now among the nations,
    (C)but finds no resting place;
her pursuers have all overtaken her
    in the midst of her distress.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:3 Or under affliction
  2. Lamentations 1:3 Or in the narrow passes

11 (A)Go up to Gilead, and take (B)balm,
    O virgin daughter of Egypt!
In vain you have used many medicines;
    (C)there is no healing for you.

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17 “You shall say to them this word:
(A)‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
    and let them not cease,
for the virgin (B)daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
    (C)with a very grievous blow.

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(A)Sit in silence, and go into darkness,
    O daughter of (B)the Chaldeans;
for you shall no more be called
    (C)the mistress of kingdoms.

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22 this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:

“‘She despises you, she scorns you—
    (A)the virgin daughter of Zion;
she wags her head behind you—
    the daughter of Jerusalem.

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Is this your exultant city
    (A)whose origin is from days of old,
whose feet carried her
    to settle far away?

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And the Lord gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them as far as (A)Great Sidon and (B)Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of (C)Mizpeh. And they struck them until he left none remaining.

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64 “And the Lord (A)will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and (B)there you shall serve other gods (C)of wood and stone, (D)which neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 And (E)among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but (F)the Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and (G)a languishing soul. 66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life. 67 (H)In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and (I)the sights that your eyes shall see.

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24     But ships shall come from (A)Kittim
and shall afflict Asshur and (B)Eber;
    and he too (C)shall come to utter destruction.”

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13 (A)“Zebulun shall dwell at the (B)shore of the sea;
    he shall become a haven for ships,
    and his border shall be at Sidon.

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15 (A)Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth, 16 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, 17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, 18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed. 19 And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

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