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14 Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
    for your fortress is destroyed.(A)

15 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:(B)

16 Take a harp;
    go about the city,
    you forgotten prostitute!
Make sweet melody;
    sing many songs,
    that you may be remembered.

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14 Wail, you ships(A) of Tarshish;(B)
    your fortress is destroyed!(C)

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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