The song of the harlot, celebrating the wiles by which a forgotten prostitute seeks to regain her influence. The song has a light, dancing rhythm, and consists of six lines of two words each.
make sweet melody Better: play skilfully.
TAKE AN HARP - This is a continuation of the figure commenced in the previous verse, a direct command to Tyre as an harlot, to go about the city with the usual expressions of rejoicing. Thus Donatus,...
CHAPTER 23 The Burden of Tyre 1. _Tyre's great disaster (Isaiah 23:1)_ 2. _The complete overthrow (Isaiah 23:6)_ 3. _Tyre's future restoration and degradation (Isaiah 23:15)_ Tyre typifies the commer...
ISAIAH 23. ORACLE ON TYRE. The date and authorship are alike very uncertain. If by Isaiah, the occasion may be the siege of Tyre by Shalmaneser about 727- 722 (p. 59), the historicity of which, howeve...
TAKE AN HARP, &C. Figure of speech _Apostrophe_. Not. quotation....
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY— The second part of this discourse contains the alleviation of the calamity decreed upon Tyre. In these verses the prophet informs us, _first,_ that God would cir...
c. SUBMISSION TEXT: Isaiah 23:15-18 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 it shall b...
Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. SING ... THAT THOU MAYEST BE REMEMBERED. Same figure, to...
THE DOOM OF TYRE Tyre was a great mercantile centre of the ancient world, and at the time of the Hebrew monarchy chief state of Phœnicia, the parent of many colonies, and mistress of the Mediterranea...
The v. is figurative of Tyre seeking to renew her commerce....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 23 All the verses in this chapter refer to both Tyre and Sidon. This is so even if on...
After 70 years, nobody of the earlier times would still be alive. But in every century, women who live in the ports have offered sex for money to sailors. It will be easy to bring back this bad tradit...
קְחִ֥י כִנֹּ֛ור סֹ֥בִּי עִ֖יר זֹונָ֣ה נִשְׁכָּחָ֑ה...
CHAPTER XVIII TYRE; OR, THE MERCENARY SPIRIT 702 B.C. Isaiah 23:1 THE task, which was laid upon the religion of Israel while Isaiah was its prophet, was the task, as we have often told ourselves, o...
The burden of Tyre opens with a graphic description of her desolation. Her harbors are closed. Her borders are desolate. The sea, which had been her highway, is abandoned, and Egypt, her ally, is affr...
Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; (x) make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. (x) She will labour by all means to recover her first cr...
It is worthy remark, that Tyre's captivity was appointed by the Lord, to be of the same length as Israel's, and under the same government. Was this designed, (I only ask the question, not determine) t...
16._Take a harp. _He compares Tyre to a harlot, who, after having spent the whole period of her youth in debauchery, has at length grown old, and on that account is forsaken and despised by all, and y...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...
TAKE A HARP, GO ABOUT THE CITY,.... As harlots used to do, that by their music, both vocal and instrumental, they might allure men into their company to commit fornication with them; so Tyre is direct...
Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. Ver. 16. _Take an harp._] In bidding her do so, he foretelle...
_And it shall come to pass_, &c. Here begins the second part of this discourse, which contains an alleviation of the judgment decreed against Tyre. The prophet foretels, 1st, “That God would circumscr...
THE RESTORATION OF TYREV. 15. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY, at the time when this prophecy would be fulfilled, THAT TYRE SHALL BE FORGOTTEN SEVENTY YEARS, the length of the Chaldean supremacy...
Take an harp, or zither, GO ABOUT THE CITY, THOU HARLOT THAT HAST BEEN FORGOTTEN; MAKE SWEET MELODY, with pleasant playing, SING MANY SONGS THAT THOU MAYEST BE REMEMBERED, the trade of Tyre being comp...
15-18 The desolations of Tyre were not to be for ever. The Lord will visit Tyre in mercy. But when set at liberty, she will use her old arts of temptation. The love of worldly wealth is spiritual ido...
TAKE AN HARP, GO ABOUT THE CITY; as harlots use to do, to allure customers. THOU HARLOT; so he calleth Tyre, partly because she enticed merchants to deal with her by various artifices, and even by dis...
Isaiah 23:16 Take H3947 (H8798) harp H3658 about H5437 (H8798) city H5892 forgotten H7911 (H8737) harlot...
AFTER SEVENTY YEARS TYRE WILL BE RESTORED (ISAIAH 23:15). Analysis. a And it will come about in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king (Isaiah 23:15 a)...
CONTENTS: Burden of Tyre. Desolations preceding the final deliverance of Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The proud boasts of worldly nations, who bid defiance to their neighbors, will surely be...
Isaiah 23:1. _The burden of Tyre._ This was one of the most ancient cities of Phœnicia, situate on a rock, seven hundred paces from the shore, though now joined to the land by the working of the sea....
_The burden of Tyre_ THE PROPHECY AGAINST TYRE: LESSONS The Tarshish of this chapter is Spain. Chittim is the island of Cyprus. The word “merchant” is the same word that is rendered in other places...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:1 The fifth oracle concerns the judgment and redemption of Tyre. ⇐ ⇔...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:15 The PROSTITUTE Tyre will soon be back in business, but will ultimately be redeemed (like other nations, e.g., Isaiah 19:23)....
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 23:1 THE BURDEN OF TYRE. We hero reach the last of the "burdens"—the concluding chapter of the series of denunciatory prophecies which commenced with Isaiah 13:1. It is an elegy "in...
Now in chapter 23 he takes up his burden against Tyre. Tyre was, of course, a seaport town. It was the area... The people of Tyre were known as Phoenicians. And so you who are versed in your ancient h...
Jeremiah 30:14; Proverbs 7:10...
Go about — As harlots use to do. Thou harlot — So he calls Tyre, because she enticed the merchants to deal with her by various artifices, and even by dishonest practices, and because of the great and...