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Isaiah 23:13 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people didn’t exist. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin. "

Isaiah 23:13

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11 He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. The LORD has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.

12 He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.”

13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people didn’t exist. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.

14 Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!

15 It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.

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Habakkuk 1:6

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"For, behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation who march through the width of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs."

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Isaiah 13:19

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"Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah."

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Jeremiah 32:43

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"Fields will be bought in this land, about which you say, ‘It is desolate, without man or animal. It is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’"

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Jeremiah 32:24

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"“Behold, siege ramps have been built against the city to take it. The city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, of the famine, and of the pestilence. What you have spoken has happened. Behold, you see it."

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Isaiah 25:2

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"For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built."

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Isaiah 43:14

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"The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing."

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Isaiah 23:1

"The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them."

Isaiah 23:2

"Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon that pass over the sea have replenished."

Isaiah 23:3

"On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations."

Isaiah 23:4

"Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor given birth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.”"

Isaiah 23:5

"When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre."

Isaiah 23:6

"Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!"

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