Isaiah 23:16
Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
Context
This verse from Isaiah Chapter 23 connects to 3 cross-references. The oracle against Tyre and its ships: the great trading city will be laid waste. Tyre, whose merchants were princes, will be forgotten for seventy years. After seventy years Tyre will return to commerce but her profits will go to …
Other Translations
Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
Take a harp, go round the city, O forgotten harlot, play well, Multiply song that thou mayest be remembered.
Take an instrument of music, go about the town, O loose woman who has gone out from the memory of man; make sweet melody with songs, so that you may come back to men's minds.
Cross References
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an …