^23:15At that time³⁰ Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years,³¹ the typical life span of a king.³² At the end of seventy years Tyre will try to attract attention again, like the prostitute in the popular song:³³

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Footnotes

30 Or “in that day” (). The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in .
31 The number seventy is probably used in a stereotypical, nonliteral sense here to indicate a long period of time that satisfies completely the demands of God’s judgment.
32 Heb “like the days of a king.”
33 Heb “At the end of seventy years it will be for Tyre like the song of the prostitute.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

NIVNew International Version (2011)

At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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

NLTNew Living Translation

For seventy years, the length of a king’s life, Tyre will be forgotten. But then the city will come back to life as in the song about the prostitute:

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And this will happen on that day: And Tyre will be forgotten seventy years,

like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will be for Tyre like the song of the prostitute:

KJV 1900King James Version

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 shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

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