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But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute: <a href="/nlt/isaiah/23.htm">New Living Translation</a> For seventy years, the length of a king’s life, Tyre will be forgotten. But then the city will come back to life as in the song about the prostitute: <a href="/esv/isaiah/23.htm">English Standard Version</a> In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute: <a href="/bsb/isaiah/23.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot: <a href="/kjv/isaiah/23.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/isaiah/23.htm">New King James Version</a> Now it shall come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot: <a href="/nasb_/isaiah/23.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Now on that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute: <a href="/nasb/isaiah/23.htm">NASB 1995</a> Now in that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot: <a href="/nasb77/isaiah/23.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Now it will come about in that day that Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot: <a href="/lsb/isaiah/23.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Now it will be in that day, that Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot: <a href="/amp/isaiah/23.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Now in that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the prostitute’s song: <a href="/csb/isaiah/23.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> On that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the life span of one king. At the end of seventy years, what the song says about the prostitute will happen to Tyre: <a href="/hcsb/isaiah/23.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> On that day Tyre will be forgotten for 70 years—the life span of one king. At the end of 70 years, what the song says about the prostitute will happen to Tyre: <a href="/asv/isaiah/23.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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 be unto Tyre as in the song of the harlot. <a href="/cev/isaiah/23.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> The city of Tyre will be forgotten for 70 years, which is the lifetime of a king. Then Tyre will be like that evil woman in the song: <a href="/erv/isaiah/23.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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 be unto Tyre as in the song of the harlot. <a href="/gwt/isaiah/23.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> When that day comes, Tyre will be forgotten for 70 years, the lifetime of one king. At the end of the 70 years, Tyre will be like the prostitute in this song: <a href="/gnt/isaiah/23.htm">Good News Translation</a> A time is coming when Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the lifetime of a king. When those years are over, Tyre will be like the prostitute in the song: <a href="/isv/isaiah/23.htm">International Standard Version</a> It will happen at that time that Tyre will be forgotten for 70 years, the span of a king's life. Then, at the end of those 70 years, it will turn out for Tyre as in the prostitute's song: <a href="/msb/isaiah/23.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years?the span of a king?s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot: <a href="/net/isaiah/23.htm">NET Bible</a> At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the typical life span of a king. At the end of seventy years Tyre will try to attract attention again, like the prostitute in the popular song: <a href="/nheb/isaiah/23.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute. <a href="/wbt/isaiah/23.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> 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 a harlot. <a href="/web/isaiah/23.htm">World English Bible</a> It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/isaiah/23.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And it has come to pass in that day, "" That Tyre is forgotten seventy years, "" According to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years there is to Tyre as the song of the harlot. <a href="/ylt/isaiah/23.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And it hath come to pass, in that day, That forgotten is Tyre seventy years, According to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years there is to Tyre as the song of the harlot. <a href="/slt/isaiah/23.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And it was in that day, and Tyre was forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: from the end of seventy years it shall be to Tyre as the song of a harlot.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/isaiah/23.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And it shall come to pass in that day that thou, O Tyre, shalt be forgotten, seventy years, according to the days of one king: but after seventy years, there shall be unto Tyre as the song of a harlot. <a href="/cpdv/isaiah/23.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And this shall be in that day: you, O Tyre, will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. Then, after seventy years, there will be, for Tyre, something like the canticle of a harlot. <a href="/nabre/isaiah/23.htm">New American Bible</a> On that day, Tyre shall be forgotten for seventy years, the lifetime of one king. At the end of seventy years, the song about the prostitute will be Tyre’s song: <a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/23.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> From that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the lifetime of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song about the prostitute:<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/23.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And it shall come to pass in that day that Tyre shall be forgotten for seventy years, according to the days of one king; after the end of seventy years they shall sing to Tyre a harlot's song. <a href="/hpbt/isaiah/23.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> But it shall be in that day, Tsur will be forgotten seventy years as the days of one King, and after seventy years they shall sing to Tsur the song of a harlot<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/isaiah/23.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> 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: <a href="/sep/isaiah/23.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And 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. <a href="/parallel/isaiah/23-15.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=4750" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/isaiah/23.htm">The Fall of Tyre</a> …14Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed! 15<a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: wə·hā·yāh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="1931: ha·hū (Art:: Pro-3ms) -- He, she, it. ">At that</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: bay·yō·wm (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">time</a> <a href="/hebrew/6865.htm" title="6865: ṣōr (N-proper-fs) -- A Phoenician city. Or Tsowr; the same as tsor; a rock; Tsor, a place in Palestine.">Tyre</a> <a href="/hebrew/7911.htm" title="7911: wə·niš·ka·ḥaṯ (Conj-w:: V-Nifal-Prtcpl-fs) -- To forget. Or shakeach; a primitive root; to mislay, i.e. To be oblivious of, from want of memory or attention.">will be forgotten</a> <a href="/hebrew/7657.htm" title="7657: šiḇ·‘îm (Number-cp) -- Seventy (a card. number). Multiple of sheba'; seventy.">for seventy</a> <a href="/hebrew/8141.htm" title="8141: šā·nāh (N-fs) -- A year. (in plura or shanah; from shanah; a year.">years—</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: kî·mê (Prep-k:: N-mpc) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">the span</a> <a href="/hebrew/259.htm" title="259: ’e·ḥāḏ (Number-ms) -- One. A numeral from 'achad; properly, united, i.e. One; or first.">of a</a> <a href="/hebrew/4428.htm" title="4428: me·leḵ (N-ms) -- King. From malak; a king.">king’s life.</a> <a href="/hebrew/7093.htm" title="7093: miq·qêṣ (Prep-m:: N-msc) -- End. Contracted from qatsats; an extremity; adverbially after.">But at the end</a> <a href="/hebrew/7657.htm" title="7657: šiḇ·‘îm (Number-cp) -- Seventy (a card. number). Multiple of sheba'; seventy.">of seventy</a> <a href="/hebrew/8141.htm" title="8141: šā·nāh (N-fs) -- A year. (in plura or shanah; from shanah; a year.">years,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: yih·yeh (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">it will happen</a> <a href="/hebrew/6865.htm" title="6865: lə·ṣōr (Prep-l:: N-proper-fs) -- A Phoenician city. Or Tsowr; the same as tsor; a rock; Tsor, a place in Palestine.">to Tyre</a> <a href="/hebrew/7892.htm" title="7892: kə·šî·raṯ (Prep-k:: N-fsc) -- A song, singing. Or feminine shiyrah; from shiyr; a song; abstractly, singing.">as in the song</a> <a href="/hebrew/2181.htm" title="2181: haz·zō·w·nāh (Art:: N-fs) -- To commit fornication, be a harlot. A primitive root; to commit adultery; figuratively, to commit idolatry.">of the harlot:</a> 16“Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/ezekiel/26-13.htm">Ezekiel 26:13-14</a> So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard. / I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread the fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.’ <a href="/revelation/18-21.htm">Revelation 18:21-22</a> Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again. / And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again. <a href="/jeremiah/25-10.htm">Jeremiah 25:10-11</a> Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. / And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. <a href="/zechariah/9-3.htm">Zechariah 9:3-4</a> Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets. / Behold, the Lord will impoverish her and cast her wealth into the sea, and she will be consumed by fire. <a href="/amos/1-9.htm">Amos 1:9-10</a> This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they delivered up a whole congregation of exiles to Edom and broke a covenant of brotherhood. / So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.” <a href="/ezekiel/27-25.htm">Ezekiel 27:25-27</a> The ships of Tarshish carried your merchandise. And you were filled with heavy cargo in the heart of the sea. / Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea. / Your wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the warriors within you, with all the other people on board, will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall. <a href="/revelation/17-1.htm">Revelation 17:1-2</a> Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. / The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.” <a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm">Isaiah 13:19-22</a> And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. / She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there. / But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about. ... <a href="/jeremiah/50-39.htm">Jeremiah 50:39-40</a> So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation. / As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there. <a href="/ezekiel/28-2.htm">Ezekiel 28:2-8</a> “Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god. / Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you! / By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries. ... <a href="/revelation/18-10.htm">Revelation 18:10-11</a> In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.” / And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo— <a href="/isaiah/14-23.htm">Isaiah 14:23</a> “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts. <a href="/jeremiah/51-37.htm">Jeremiah 51:37</a> Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant. <a href="/ezekiel/26-4.htm">Ezekiel 26:4-5</a> They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock. / She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations, <a href="/revelation/18-15.htm">Revelation 18:15-17</a> The merchants who sold these things and gained their wealth from her will stand at a distance, in fear of her torment. They will weep and mourn, / saying: “Woe, woe to the great city, clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls! / For in a single hour such fabulous wealth has been destroyed!” Every shipmaster, passenger, and sailor, and all who make their living from the sea, will stand at a distance</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>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.Tyre shall<a href="/jeremiah/25-9.htm">Jeremiah 25:9-11,22</a> Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations… <a href="/jeremiah/27-3.htm">Jeremiah 27:3-7</a> And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah; … <a href="/jeremiah/29-10.htm">Jeremiah 29:10</a> For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.one king<a href="/daniel/7-14.htm">Daniel 7:14</a> And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.<a href="/daniel/8-21.htm">Daniel 8:21</a> And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.<a href="/revelation/17-10.htm">Revelation 17:10</a> And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.shall Tyre sing as an harlot.<a href="/ezekiel/27-25.htm">Ezekiel 27:25</a> The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.<a href="/hosea/2-15.htm">Hosea 2:15</a> And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/22-18.htm">End</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/18-26.htm">Fare</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-10.htm">Forgotten</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-21.htm">Harlot</a> <a href="/proverbs/7-10.htm">Harlot's</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-5.htm">King's</a> <a href="/isaiah/15-4.htm">Life</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-21.htm">Prostitute</a> <a href="/psalms/90-10.htm">Seventy</a> <a href="/isaiah/12-6.htm">Sing</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-7.htm">Song</a> <a href="/psalms/90-10.htm">Span</a> <a href="/isaiah/21-8.htm">Time</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-13.htm">Tyre</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/23-17.htm">End</a> <a href="/jonah/1-3.htm">Fare</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-16.htm">Forgotten</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-16.htm">Harlot</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-17.htm">Harlot's</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-21.htm">King's</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-18.htm">Life</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-16.htm">Prostitute</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-17.htm">Seventy</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-16.htm">Sing</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-9.htm">Song</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-12.htm">Span</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-22.htm">Time</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-17.htm">Tyre</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 23</div>1. <a href="/isaiah/23-1.htm">The miserable overthrow of Tyre</a> 15. <a href="/isaiah/23-15.htm">Her restoration and unfaithfulness</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The "seventy years" is symbolic of a complete period of desolation, often associated with divine judgment. This timeframe is reminiscent of the Babylonian captivity of Judah, suggesting a parallel in divine discipline. Historically, Tyre faced several sieges, including those by the Assyrians and Babylonians, which could align with this period of being "forgotten."the span of a king’s life. The reference to "the span of a king’s life" suggests a typical reign or lifetime of a monarch, emphasizing the temporality and fragility of human power compared to God's eternal sovereignty. This could imply that the period of Tyre's desolation is as long as a king's influence lasts, highlighting the transient nature of earthly kingdoms. It also underscores the idea that God's plans and judgments are not bound by human timelines.But at the end of seventy years, This phrase introduces a turning point, indicating that the period of judgment is not permanent. It reflects God's mercy and the possibility of restoration after a time of discipline. The completion of seventy years signifies a divinely appointed time for change, similar to the restoration of Israel after the Babylonian exile.it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot: The "song of the harlot" is a metaphorical reference to Tyre's return to its former ways of commerce and trade, akin to a harlot resuming her profession. This imagery suggests that Tyre will regain its economic activity but also implies a moral and spiritual critique of its practices. The use of a "harlot" metaphor is consistent with prophetic literature, where unfaithfulness to God is often depicted in terms of prostitution. This phrase foreshadows Tyre's future, where it may recover materially but still face spiritual challenges.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/t/tyre.htm">Tyre</a> An ancient Phoenician city known for its wealth and trade. It was a significant maritime power and a hub of commerce in the ancient world. 2. <a href="/topical/s/seventy_years.htm">Seventy Years</a> A symbolic period often used in the Bible to denote a complete cycle of judgment or exile, similar to the Babylonian captivity of Judah. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_song_of_the_prostitute.htm">The Song of the Prostitute</a> A metaphorical reference indicating Tyre's return to its former ways of commerce and trade, likened to a prostitute returning to her trade. 4. <a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a> The prophet who conveyed God's messages to the people of Israel and surrounding nations, including prophecies of judgment and restoration. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_king's_life.htm">The King’s Life</a> A reference to the typical lifespan of a king, used here to symbolize the duration of Tyre's period of being forgotten.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_temporality_of_earthly_power.htm">The Temporality of Earthly Power</a> Tyre's eventual downfall serves as a reminder that earthly power and wealth are temporary and subject to God's sovereign will. <a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_judgment.htm">God's Sovereignty in Judgment</a> The seventy-year period signifies God's control over time and history, demonstrating that His judgments are purposeful and measured. <a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_restoration.htm">Repentance and Restoration</a> The metaphor of the prostitute suggests the possibility of returning to former ways, but it also opens the door for repentance and transformation. <a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_complacency.htm">The Danger of Complacency</a> Tyre's account warns against becoming complacent in prosperity, as it can lead to spiritual and moral decline. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_prophecy.htm">The Role of Prophecy</a> Prophecies like Isaiah's serve to guide, warn, and prepare God's people for future events, encouraging them to trust in His plans.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_23.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 23</a> <a href="/q/why_does_tyre_exist_post-isaiah_23_1.htm">In Isaiah 23:1, how could Tyre be utterly destroyed if historical records show it continued to exist and even thrive for centuries afterward? </a> <a href="/q/was_tyre_rebuilt_after_destruction.htm">Was Tyre rebuilt after its prophesied destruction?</a> <a href="/q/does_ezekiel_26_conflict_with_tyre's_fate.htm">Does the prophecy in Ezekiel 26 conflict with accounts in other books of the Bible that reference Tyre’s continued trading and influence after its supposed destruction? </a> <a href="/q/how_does_isaiah_23_17-18_fit_tyre's_history.htm">In Isaiah 23:17-18, how can the prophecy of Tyre's restoration after seventy years be reconciled with the city's complex and prolonged history of multiple conquests?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/23.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(15) Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years.--If we take the number literally, the seventy years may coincide with those of the captivity of Judah, during which, under the Chaldaean supremacy, Tyre was reduced to a state of comparative insignificance. It seems better, however, with Cheyne, to take it as a symbolic number for a long period of indefinite duration, and so, bringing it into closer connection with the context, to reckon the period from its conquest by the Assyrians.According to the days of one king.--We look in vain for any ruler of Assyria or Babylon whose reign was of this length, and the words probably mean, as the days fixed by a king--i.e., by a despotic and absolute decree. Possibly, however, the "one king" may stand for one dynasty.Shall Tyre sing as an harlot.--Literally, there shall be to Tyre as the song of the harlot, possibly referring to some well-known lyric of this type. The commercial city, welcoming foreigners of all nations as her lovers for the sake of gain, is compared to the prostitute who sells herself for money. (Comp. <a href="/revelation/17-2.htm" title="With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.">Revelation 17:2</a>.)<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/23.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verses 15-18. - TYRE'S RESTORATION TO PROSPERITY AND CONVERSION TO JEHOVAH. After an interval, expressed by the symbolic number of" seventy years," Tyre is to rise from her ashes, and become once more a prosperous state, resuming her former occupation of a "merchant city," and once more making great gains, which she will devote to the service of Jehovah. St. Jerome thought that this prophecy had not been accomplished in his day. If so, it cannot be said to have been accomplished yet; unless, indeed, Tyre may be regarded as representing the commercial spirit, which. under Christianity, is not necessarily alien from religion, but shows itself sometimes altogether friendly to the Church, supplying ways and means for ten thousand philanthropic and praiseworthy enterprises (ver. 18). Verse 15. - Tyro shall be forgotten; i.e. "shall cease to occupy men's thoughts, as a factor in politics - shall pass out of their calculations, and count for nothing." Seventy years. "Forty years" and "seventy years" are the chief representatives in Scripture of an indefinite time. The week of creation seems to have given to seven its quasi-sacred character, which passed from the primary number to the corresponding decimal one. The sacred use of "seventy" appears first in the "seventy elders" who accompanied Moses to the covenant-feast on Sinai (<a href="/exodus/24-9.htm">Exodus 24:9</a>). After this, "seventy 'talents are mentioned as the weight of the bronze offerings for the tabernacle (<a href="/exodus/38-29.htm">Exodus 38:29</a>), and "seventy" shekels as the weight of the silver bowls offered by the heads of tribes when the tabernacle was set up (<a href="/numbers/7-13.htm">Numbers 7:13-85</a>). The "indefinite" us, of "seventy" is most apparent in such expressions as that of <a href="/genesis/4-24.htm">Genesis 4:24</a>, "If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, surely Lamech seventy and sevenfold;" and that of <a href="/matthew/18-22.htm">Matthew 18:22</a>, "I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven." "Seventy" seems also to be indefinite in <a href="/exodus/15-27.htm">Exodus 15:27</a>; <a href="/numbers/33-9.htm">Numbers 33:9</a>; <a href="/judges/1-7.htm">Judges 1:7</a>; <a href="/judges/12-13.htm">Judges 12:13</a>; <a href="/2_samuel/24-15.htm">2 Samuel 24:15</a>; <a href="/1_kings/5-15.htm">1 Kings 5:15</a>: <a href="/1_chronicles/21-14.htm">1 Chronicles 21:14</a>, etc. It is absurd to count the "seventy years" of the present passage, as some do, from the accession of Nebuchadnezzar to the death of Nabonidus, for neither did Tyro begin to be forgotten in the first year of the one prince, nor did she immediately recover herself on the death of the other. According to the days of one king; or, like the days of one king. The period, whatever its length, should be to Type "like the days of one king;" i.e. unchanging, without hope. Oriental kings prided themselves on maintaining an unaltered policy (cf. <a href="/2_kings/25-27.htm">2 Kings 25:27</a>; <a href="/isaiah/14-17.htm">Isaiah 14:17</a>). Shall Tyre sing as an harlot; literally, it shall be to Tyre as [in] the song of the harlot. A particular song seems to be meant, part of which the prophet proceeds to quote in the next verse. <a href="/commentaries/isaiah/23-15.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>At that הַה֔וּא (ha·hū) Article | Pronoun - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1931.htm">Strong's 1931: </a> He, self, the same, this, that, as, are time בַּיּ֣וֹם (bay·yō·wm) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day Tyre צֹר֙ (ṣōr) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6865.htm">Strong's 6865: </a> Tyre -- a Phoenician city will be forgotten וְנִשְׁכַּ֤חַת (wə·niš·ka·ḥaṯ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Participle - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7911.htm">Strong's 7911: </a> To mislay, to be oblivious of, from want of memory, attention for seventy שִׁבְעִ֣ים (šiḇ·‘îm) Number - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7657.htm">Strong's 7657: </a> Seventy (a cardinal number) years— שָׁנָ֔ה (šā·nāh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8141.htm">Strong's 8141: </a> A year the span כִּימֵ֖י (kî·mê) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day of a אֶחָ֑ד (’e·ḥāḏ) Number - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_259.htm">Strong's 259: </a> United, one, first king’s life. מֶ֣לֶךְ (me·leḵ) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4428.htm">Strong's 4428: </a> A king But at the end מִקֵּ֞ץ (miq·qêṣ) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7093.htm">Strong's 7093: </a> An extremity, after of seventy שִׁבְעִ֤ים (šiḇ·‘îm) Number - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7657.htm">Strong's 7657: </a> Seventy (a cardinal number) years, שָׁנָה֙ (šā·nāh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8141.htm">Strong's 8141: </a> A year it will happen יִהְיֶ֣ה (yih·yeh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> To fall out, come to pass, become, be to Tyre לְצֹ֔ר (lə·ṣōr) Preposition-l | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6865.htm">Strong's 6865: </a> Tyre -- a Phoenician city as in the song כְּשִׁירַ֖ת (kə·šî·raṯ) Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7892.htm">Strong's 7892: </a> A song, singing of the harlot: הַזּוֹנָֽה׃ (haz·zō·w·nāh) Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2181.htm">Strong's 2181: </a> To commit adultery, to commit idolatry <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/23-15.htm">Isaiah 23:15 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/isaiah/23-15.htm">Isaiah 23:15 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/isaiah/23-15.htm">Isaiah 23:15 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/isaiah/23-15.htm">Isaiah 23:15 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/isaiah/23-15.htm">Isaiah 23:15 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/23-15.htm">Isaiah 23:15 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/23-15.htm">Isaiah 23:15 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/23-15.htm">Isaiah 23:15 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/23-15.htm">Isaiah 23:15 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/isaiah/23-15.htm">Isaiah 23:15 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-15.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 23:15 It will come to pass in that (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/23-14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 23:14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 23:14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/23-16.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 23:16"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 23:16" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>