OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 23:1

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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.

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Verse 1. Tyre was destroyed, in part, by Nabuchodonosor. Cyrus permitted all the captives of this, as well as of other countries, to return.—Cethim; Cyrus, or rather Macedonia. Merchants come thence no longer.

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