Isaiah 23:16

The Scriptures 1998

“Take a lyre, go about the city, you forgotten whore; make sweet playing, sing many songs, so that you might be remembered.”

Cross References

Jeremiah 30:14

‘All those loving you have forgotten you, they do not seek you. For I smote you as an enemy smites, with cruel chastisement, because your crookedness is great, your sins have increased.

Isaiah 23:15

And in that day it shall be that Tsor is forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one sovereign. At the end of seventy years it shall be to Tsor as in the song of the whore:

Isaiah 23:17

And at the end of seventy years it shall be that יהוה  visits Tsor. And she shall return to her hire and commit whoring with all the reigns of the earth on the face of the soil.

Ezekiel 26:13

‘And I shall cause the sound of your songs to cease, and let the sound of your lyres be heard no more.

Nahum 3:4

because of the many whorings of the well-favoured whore, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations by her whorings, and clans by her sorceries.