Isaiah 23:16

Take thou a lyre, Go round the city, O harlot forgotten,—Sweetly touch the strings Lengthen out the song, That thou mayest be called to mind.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

In Context

15So shall it be in that day, That Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, According to the days of a certain king: At the end of seventy years, shall it befall Tyre according to the song of the harlot:

17So shall it be, at the end of seventy years, That Yahweh will visit Tyre, And she will return to her hire,—Yea she will play the harlot—with all the kingdoms of the earth, upon the face of the ground.

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Cross References

Proverbs 7:10And lo! a woman, came to meet him, attired as one unchaste, of a wily heart.

Nahum 3:4Because of the multitude of the unchaste doings of the unchaste one, fair in grace, mistress of secret arts,—who hath been selling nations by her unchaste doings, families by her secret arts,

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 23:16-18

The Restoration of Tyre. ( b. c. 718.) 15 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. 16 Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. 17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with… Read the whole commentary →

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