Is 23:13 ¶ Behold, the land of the Chaldeans--this is the people which was not; Assyria appointed it for desert creatures--they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.
Is 23:14 Wail, O ships of Tarshish, For your stronghold is destroyed.
Is 23:15 Now in that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
Is 23:16 Take your harp, walk about the city, O forgotten harlot; Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs, That you may be remembered.
Is 23:17 It will come about at the end of seventy years that the LORD will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her harlot's wages and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.
Is 23:18 Her gain and her harlot's wages will be set apart to the LORD; it will not be stored up or hoarded, but her gain will become sufficient food and choice attire for those who dwell in the presence of the LORD.
Is 24:1 Behold, the LORD lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.
Is 24:2 And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.
Is 24:3 The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for the LORD has spoken this word.
Is 24:4 The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away.
Is 24:5 The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant.
Is 24:6 Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.
Is 24:7 ¶ The new wine mourns, The vine decays, All the merry-hearted sigh.
Is 24:8 The gaiety of tambourines ceases, The noise of revelers stops, The gaiety of the harp ceases.
Is 24:9 They do not drink wine with song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
Is 24:10 The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that none may enter.
Is 24:11 There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine; All joy turns to gloom. The gaiety of the earth is banished.
Is 24:12 Desolation is left in the city And the gate is battered to ruins.
Is 24:13 For thus it will be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, As the shaking of an olive tree, As the gleanings when the grape harvest is over.
Is 24:14 They raise their voices, they shout for joy; They cry out from the west concerning the majesty of the LORD.