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.”

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

14 (F)Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
    for your stronghold is laid waste.

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  1. Isaiah 23:13 Or that has become nothing

12 He said, “No more of your reveling,(A)
    Virgin Daughter(B) Sidon, now crushed!

“Up, cross over to Cyprus;(C)
    even there you will find no rest.”
13 Look at the land of the Babylonians,[a](D)
    this people that is now of no account!
The Assyrians(E) have made it
    a place for desert creatures;(F)
they raised up their siege towers,(G)
    they stripped its fortresses bare
    and turned it into a ruin.(H)

14 Wail, you ships(I) of Tarshish;(J)
    your fortress is destroyed!(K)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:13 Or Chaldeans