"And it shall come to pass in that day [_i. e._ after the first fall], _that Tyre shall be forgotten_ [as a Nation] _seventy years_, according to the days of one king: after the _end_ of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten: make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayst be remembered [_i. e._ as in her early days]. And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the _Lord_ will visit Tyre [_i. e._ give her strength], and she shall turn to her hire [_i. e._ merchandise], and shall commit fornification [_i. e._ have _commerce_] with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. And her merchandise, and her hire, shall be _holiness_ to the Lord [_i. e._ they shall _prove the Sabbath_:--they did so at Jerusalem, _vide_ Nehemiah]: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD [_i. e._ house of Israel], to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing. Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, _and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof_. And [so] it shall be, _as with the People so with the Priest_; as with the servant, so with the master; as with the maid, so with the mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the gainer of usury to him. _The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled_: for the LORD hath spoken this word. When THUS it shall be [_i. e._ at the second and last fall], in the midst of the land among the people, _there shall be as the shaking of an olive-tree, and as the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done_. They [_i. e._ the remnant] shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD,--_they shall cry aloud_ [_i. e._ praise] _from the Sea_!" [Isaiah xxiii. & xxiv.] Some of the Prophet's reflections have been omitted, as not being prophetical. That the reader may not think that we have made an error in regard _to a Remnant of the Tyrians being saved_, the following quotation from the same Prophet is given, wherein the same figure of speech is used concerning the fall of Israel, and the safety of a small portion. "And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of JACOB shall be made _thin_, and the fatness of his flesh [_i. e._ race] shall wax lean. And it shall be as when the harvest-man gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim. Yet _gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of the olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches_ thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel." [Isaiah xvii. 4--6.]