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15 On that day, Tyre shall be forgotten for seventy years,[a] the lifetime of one king. At the end of seventy years, the song about the prostitute will be Tyre’s song:

16 Take a harp, go about the city,
    forgotten prostitute;
Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs,
    that you may be remembered.

17 At the end of the seventy years the Lord shall visit Tyre. She shall return to her hire and serve as prostitute[b] with all the world’s kingdoms on the face of the earth.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 23:15 Seventy years: a conventional expression for a long period of time; cf. Jer 25:11 and 29:10.
  2. 23:17–18 Her hire…prostitute: the international trade engaged in by Tyre will become a source of wealth to God’s people (cf. 45:14; 60:4–14; Zec 14:14).