Isaiah 23:16 (WEB)
Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered.
Fathers and councils · 2
Jerome
“For, sin stricken as she is, even Tyre is bidden to take up her harp and to do penance; like Peter she is told to wash away the stains of her former foulness with bitter tears.” — editor's note: Isa. xxiii. 15, 16.
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Aphrahat
“Now we see that Tyre was inhabited, and was opulent after she had wandered seventy years, and after she had received the reward of her harlotries and after she had committed fornication with all kingdoms.” — editor's note: Is. xxiii. 15, 16, 17.
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