Isaiah 23:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her wages, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָ֞ה מִקֵּ֣ץ ׀ שִׁבְעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֗ה יִפְקֹ֤ד יְהוָה֙ אֶת־צֹ֔ר וְשָׁבָ֖ה לְאֶתְנַנָּ֑ה וְזָֽנְתָ֛ה אֶת־כָּל־מַמְלְכ֥וֹת הָאָ֖רֶץ עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הָאֲדָמָֽה׃

Transliteration

And-wĕhāyāh from-miqqēṣ šibʿîm šānāh yipqōd YHWH ʾet-Ṣōr and-wĕšābāh to-ʾetnannāh and-wĕzāntāh ʾet-all-mamlĕkôt hāʾāreṣ on-pĕnê hāʾădāmāh

Grammar Details

• *wĕhāyāh*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and it will be/happen
• *miqqēṣ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - from the end of
• *šibʿîm*: cardinal number - seventy
• *šānāh*: noun, feminine singular - year
• *yipqōd*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will visit
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *Ṣōr*: proper noun - Tyre
• *wĕšābāh*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - and she will return
• *ʾetnannāh*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd feminine singular suffix - her hire
• *wĕzāntāh*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - and she will commit prostitution
• *mamlĕkôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - kingdoms of
• *hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the earth/land
• *pĕnê*: noun, masculine plural construct - face of
• *hāʾădāmāh*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the ground

Word Meanings

• *yipqōd*: visit/attend to/take notice of
• *wĕšābāh* *lĕʾetnannāh*: return to her hire/go back to her wages/resume her trade
• *wĕzāntāh*: commit prostitution/play the harlot/have commercial relations
• *pĕnê* *hāʾădāmāh*: face of the ground/surface of the earth

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  At the end of seventy years, the LORD will attend to Tyre. She will return to her hire and will prostitute herself to all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Thus shal it happen after lxx. yeares. The LORDE shal uiset the citie of Tirus, and it shal come agayne to hyr Marchaundyse, and shal occupie with al the Kingdomes that be in the worlde.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And at the ende of seuentie yeres shall the Lorde visite Tyrus, and shee shall returne to her wages, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdomes of the earth, that are in the world.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And after the ende of the seuentie yeres shall the Lorde visite Tyre, and she shall conuert vnto her rewarde, and shall commit fornication with all the kyngdomes of the earth that are in the worlde.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  It shall happen after the end of seventy years, that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And it hath come to pass, At the end of seventy years Jehovah inspecteth Tyre, And she hath repented of her gift, That she committed fornication With all kingdoms of the earth on the face of the ground.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And it will be after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will have mercy on Tyre, and she will go back to her trade, acting as a loose woman with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

• World English Bible (2000)

  It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  At the end of seventy years the LORD will revive Tyre. She will start making money again by selling her services to all the earth’s kingdoms.

Referenced Verses

• Nah 3:4 : 4 Because of the multitude of the harlotries of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations through her harlotries, and families through her sorceries.
• Ezek 27:6-9 : 6 From the oaks of Bashan they have made your oars; the company of the Ashurites have made your benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim. 7 Fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was what you spread forth to be your sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was what covered you. 8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were your mariners: your wise men, O Tyre, who were in you, were your pilots. 9 The elders of Gebal and its wise men were in you, your caulkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to occupy your merchandise. 10 Those of Persia, Lud, and Phut were in your army, your men of war: they hung the shield and helmet in you; they set forth your beauty. 11 The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around, and the Gammadims were in your towers: they hung their shields upon your walls all around; they made your beauty perfect. 12 Tarshish was your merchant because of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in your markets. 13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in your market. 14 Those of the house of Togarmah traded in your markets with horses and horsemen and mules. 15 The men of Dedan were your merchants; many islands were the merchandise of your hand: they brought you in exchange horns of ivory and ebony. 16 Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks: they occupied in your markets with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and agate. 17 Judah and the land of Israel, they were your merchants: they traded in your market with wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. 18 Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. 19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in your markets: bright iron, cassia, and calamus were in your market. 20 Dedan was your merchant in precious clothes for chariots. 21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with you in lambs, rams, and goats: in these they were your merchants. 22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were your merchants: they occupied in your fairs with the finest of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. 23 Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were your merchants. 24 These were your merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and embroidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among your merchandise. 25 The ships of Tarshish sang of you in your market: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. 26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the midst of the seas. 27 Your riches, and your markets, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your caulkers, and the occupiers of your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, and in all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of your ruin. 28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots. 29 And all who handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; 30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: 31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. 32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, What city is like Tyre, like the one destroyed in the midst of the sea? 33 When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many people; you enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise. 34 In the time when you shall be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters your merchandise and all your company in the midst of you shall fall. 35 All the inhabitants of the islands shall be astonished at you, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance. 36 The merchants among the peoples shall hiss at you; you shall be a terror, and never shall be any more.
• Hos 12:7-8 : 7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that is sin.
• Mic 1:7 : 7 And all her carved images will be beaten to pieces, and all her wages will be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay desolate: for she gathered it from the wages of a harlot, and they shall return to the hire of a harlot.
• Mic 3:11 : 11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.
• Deut 23:18 : 18 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to the LORD your God.
• Jer 29:10 : 10 For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
• Ezek 16:26 : 26 You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have increased your whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
• Ezek 16:31 : 31 In that you build your eminent place at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as a harlot, that scorns payment;
• Ezek 22:13 : 13 Behold, therefore I have struck My hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst.
• Zeph 2:7 : 7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed there: in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
• Acts 15:14 : 14 Simeon has declared how God at first visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for His name.
• 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 Not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy for dishonest gain; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
• 1 Tim 3:8 : 8 Likewise, the deacons must be dignified, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain;
• 1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by compulsion, but willingly; not for dishonest gain, but with a ready mind;
• Rev 17:1-5 : 1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, Come here; I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3 So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication: 5 And on her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
• Rev 18:9-9 : 9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her, shall mourn and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning, 10 Standing far off for fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour your judgment has come. 11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no one buys their merchandise any more: 12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all kinds of citron wood, and all types of vessels of ivory, and all kinds of vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, 13 And cinnamon, and incense, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. 14 And the fruits that your soul longed for have departed from you, and all things which were luxurious and splendid have departed from you, and you shall find them no more at all.
• Rev 19:2 : 2 For true and righteous are His judgments: for He has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged the blood of His servants at her hand.