Holy Scripture

Isaiah 23:15

A church father on this verse
“This Tyre also lay waste seventy years like Jerusalem, which sat in desolation seventy years.”
Aphrahat the Persian Sage, 4th c. — DEMONSTRATION 5:9

Source: Septuagint

Original

15And 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.

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In context

13And if thou depart to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.

14Howl, ye ships of Carthage: for your stronghold is destroyed.

— Isaiah 23:15 —

16Take a harp, go about, O city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; play well on the harp, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

17And it shall come to pass after the seventy years, that God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

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