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Isaiah 23:14-16
The Message
Isaiah 23:14-16
The Message
14 Wail, ships of Tarshish,
your strong seaports all in ruins!
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15-16 For the next seventy years, a king’s lifetime, Tyre will be forgotten. At the end of the seventy years, Tyre will stage a comeback, but it will be the comeback of a worn-out whore, as in the song:
“Take a harp, circle the city,
unremembered whore.
Sing your old songs, your many old songs.
Maybe someone will remember.”
Isaiah 23:14-16
New International Version
Isaiah 23:14-16
New International Version
15 At that time Tyre(D) will be forgotten for seventy years,(E) the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:
16 “Take up a harp, walk through the city,
you forgotten prostitute;(F)
play the harp well, sing many a song,
so that you will be remembered.”
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