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Isaiah 23:17

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

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22 Cross References  

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,


because his judgements are true  and righteous, because he has judged the notorious prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality; and he has avenged the blood of his servants that was on her hands.


Shepherd God’s flock among you,  not overseeing  out of compulsion but willingly, as God would have you;  not out of greed for money but eagerly;


Deacons,  likewise, should be worthy of respect, not hypocritical, not drinking a lot of wine, not greedy for money,


not an excessive drinker, not a bully but gentle, not quarrelsome, not greedy.


Simeon  has reported how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for his name.


The coastland will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; they will find pasture there. They will lie down in the evening among the houses of Ashkelon, for the Lord their God will return to them and restore their fortunes.


Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practise divination for silver. Yet they lean on the  Lord, saying, ‘Isn’t the Lord   among us? No disaster will overtake us.’


All her carved images will be smashed  to pieces; all her wages  will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again for a prostitute.


‘ “Now look, I clap my hands together against the dishonest profit you have made  and against the blood shed among you.


building your mound at the head of every street and making your elevated place in every square. But you were unlike a prostitute because you scorned payment.


You engaged in promiscuous acts with Egyptian men, your well-endowed neighbours, and increased your prostitution  to anger me.


For this is what the Lord says: ‘When seventy years for Babylon are complete,  I will attend to you and will confirm my promise concerning you to restore you to this place.


Do not bring a female prostitute’s wages or a male prostitute’s  earnings into the house of the Lord your God to fulfil any vow, because both are detestable to the Lord your God.


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:


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


You built your elevated place at the head of every street  and turned your beauty into a detestable thing. You spread your legs to everyone who passed by and increased your prostitution.


This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.





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