Isaiah 23:1-18
“The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste... And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre... and her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD.”
King James Version
Isaiah's burden against Tyre — the great merchant city laid waste, then after seventy years restored, her commerce ultimately consecrated to the LORD.
Fulfillment References
Ezekiel 26:1-21 Isaiah 23:15 Psalm 45:12 Acts 21:3-6
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
Apostolic (Oneness) PentecostalEven Tyre's merchandise becomes 'holiness to the LORD' — the one God claiming the wealth of the nations for His glory.
JewishJudgment on the proud trading city and its eventual restoration; the consecration of its wealth read of God's claim over the nations' riches.
CatholicThe humbling and later restoration of Tyre, its 'holiness to the LORD' anticipating the nations drawn into God's purposes.
ProtestantA fulfilled judgment-and-restoration oracle; Tyre's later gospel connection (Acts 21) is sometimes seen in the 'holiness to the LORD.'
OrthodoxThe judgment and restoration of the city under God's providence.
DispensationalFulfilled history; the consecration of Tyre's wealth anticipates the nations' tribute in the kingdom.
AcademicScholars discuss the 'seventy years' (paralleling Jeremiah's Babylon figure) as a conventional span and date the oracle's layers amid the Assyrian/Babylonian threats to Phoenicia.
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