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Isaiah 23:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Look at the land of the Chaldeans – a people who no longer exist. Assyria destined it for desert creatures. They set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They made it a ruin.

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‘Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this land in which you are now living.


Look! I am raising up  the Chaldeans, that bitter,  impetuous nation that marches across the earth’s open spaces to seize territories not its own.


the king exclaimed, ‘Is this not Babylon the Great that I have built to be a royal residence by my vast power and for my majestic glory? ’


‘Son of man, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon made his army labour strenuously against Tyre.  Every head was made bald and every shoulder chafed, but he and his army received no compensation from Tyre for the labour he expended against it.


And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.


But this is not what he intends; this is not what he plans. It is his intent to destroy and to cut off many nations.


Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger – the staff in their hands is my wrath.


That messenger was still speaking when yet another came and reported, ‘The Chaldeans formed three bands, made a raid on the camels, and took them away. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you! ’


So he brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.


At that time  Merodach-baladan  son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah since he heard that he had been ill.


Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in place of the Israelites in the cities of Samaria. The settlers took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.


Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans  to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.


Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans, during his father Terah’s lifetime.


Therefore it is called Babylon,  ,, for there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth.


The name of the third river is Tigris,  which runs east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.


But desert creatures will lie down there, and owls will fill the houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.


They will all be left for the birds of prey on the hills and for the wild animals of the land. The birds of prey will spend the summer feeding on them, and all the wild animals the winter.


This is what the Lord, your Redeemer,  the Holy One of Israel  says: Because of you, I will send an army  to Babylon and bring all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans  in the ships in which they rejoice.


the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans; Pekod, Shoa, and Koa;  and all the Assyrians with them #– #desirable young men, all of them governors and prefects, officers and administrators, all of them riding on steeds.





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