23:023:011 He stretched out his hand over the sea,
he shook the kingdoms:
the
lord hath given a commandment against the merchant
city,
to
destroy the strong holds thereof.
23:023:012 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice,
O thou oppressed
virgin,
daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim;
there
also
shalt thou have no rest.
23:023:013 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this
people was not, till
the
Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness:
they
set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces
thereof;
and he brought it to ruin.
23:023:014 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
23:023:015 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that Tyre shall be
forgotten
seventy years, according to the days of one king:
after
the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
23:023:016 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot
that hast been
forgotten;
make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou
mayest
be remembered.
23:023:017 And it shall come to pass after the end
of seventy years, that
the
lord will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her
hire, and
shall
commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world
upon
the face of the earth.
23:023:018 And her merchandise and her hire shall
be holiness to the
lord:
it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her
merchandise
shall be for them that dwell before the lord,
to
eat
sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
23:024:001 Behold, the lord maketh the earth
empty, and maketh it waste,
and
turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the
inhabitants
thereof.
23:024:002 And it shall be, as with the people, so
with the priest; as
with
the servant, so with his master; as with the maid,
so
with
her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller;
as
with
the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker
of
usury,
so with the giver of usury to him.
23:024:003 The land shall be utterly emptied, and
utterly spoiled: for
the
lord hath spoken this word.
23:024:004 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the
world languisheth and
fadeth
away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
23:024:005 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants
thereof;
because
they have transgressed the laws, changed the
ordinance,
broken the everlasting covenant.
23:024:006 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth,
and they that
dwell
therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants
of the
earth
are burned, and few men left.


