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23.8 :Whose merchants are princes,
 * Whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
 * The of hosts hath devised it,
 * To pollute the pride of all glory,
 * To bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
 * Overflow thy land as the Nile,
 * O daughter of Tarshish! there is no girdle any more.
 * He hath stretched out His hand over the sea,
 * He hath shaken the kingdoms;
 * The hath given commandment concerning Canaan,
 * To destroy the strongholds thereof;
 * And He said: 'Thou shalt no more rejoice.'
 * O thou oppressed virgin daughter of Zidon,
 * Arise, pass over to Kittim;
 * Even there shalt thou have no rest.

Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people that was not, when Asshur founded it for shipmen—they set up their towers, they overthrew the palaces thereof; it is made a ruin.


 * Howl, ye ships of Tarshish,
 * For your stronghold is laid waste.

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 it shall fare with Tyre as in the song of the harlot:


 * Take a harp,
 * Go about the city,
 * Thou harlot long forgotten;
 * Make sweet melody,
 * Sing many songs,
 * That thou mayest be remembered.

And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the will remember Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall have commerce with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. And her gain and her hire shall be holiness to the ; it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her gain shall be for them that dwell before the, to eat their fill, and for stately clothing.


 * Behold, the maketh the earth empty and maketh it waste,
 * And turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
 * 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 creditor, so with the debtor.
 * The earth shall be utterly emptied, and clean despoiled;
 * For the hath spoken this word.
 * The earth fainteth and fadeth away,
 * The world faileth and fadeth away,
 * The lofty people of the earth do fail.
 * The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;
 * Because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statute,
 * Broken the everlasting covenant.
 * Therefore hath a curse devoured the earth,
 * And they that dwell therein are found guilty;
 * Therefore the inhabitants of the earth waste away,
 * And men are left few.
 * The new wine faileth, the vine fadeth;