Holy Scripture

Isaiah 23:14

A church father on this verse
“"Howl," he says—he repeats it—"O you ships of Carthage, for your strength is laid waste. And it shall come to pass in that day, Tyre shall be abandoned;" and below, "but after seventy years, Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot." Behold what words the prophet employs, and how he does not avoid the baseness of words o…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — On Elijah and Fasting 20.73-74

Source: Septuagint

Original

14Howl, ye ships of Carthage: for your stronghold is destroyed.

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12And men shall say, Ye shall no longer at all continue to insult and injure the daughter of Sidon: and if thou depart to the Kittim, neither there shalt thou have rest.

13And if thou depart to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.

— Isaiah 23:14 —

15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man: and it shall come to pass after seventy years, that Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot.

16Take a harp, go about, O city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; play well on the harp, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

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