Isaiah 23:16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Pick up your lyre, stroll through the city, you forgotten prostitute. Play skilfully, sing many a song so that you will be remembered.

Cross References

Jeremiah 30:14

All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer look for you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline  of someone cruel, because of your enormous guilt and your innumerable sins.

Isaiah 23:15

On that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years #– #the lifespan of one king. At the end of seventy years, what the song says about the prostitute will happen to Tyre:

Isaiah 23:17

And at the end of the seventy years,  the Lord will restore Tyre  and she will go back into business, prostituting herself with all the kingdoms of the world throughout the earth.

Ezekiel 26:13

I will put an end to the noise of your songs,  and the sound of your lyres will no longer be heard.

Nahum 3:4

Because of the continual prostitution of the prostitute, the attractive mistress of sorcery, who treats nations and clans like merchandise by her prostitution and sorcery,