Isaiah 23:15 meaning and explanation

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

Isaiah 23:15, Berean Standard Bible

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Isaiah has just announced Tyre's fall, and now he sets a limit on it. The city will be forgotten for seventy years, which he calls the span of a king's life, a conventional way of marking a full generation.

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