Tyre's Seventy-Year Return Redirects Profit

Seventy years of forgetting end with a harlot's song to be remembered

And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten 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 mayest be remembered.

The commercial city, forgotten for a royal span, courts memory again. The harlot image is trade returning to solicitation, not a warrant to shame women or to map Tyre onto a living people.

Hire is resumed, then set apart rather than hoarded

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. And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

Profit after return is redirected to those who dwell before the LORD, for food and lasting clothes, not stored as Tyre's private glory. The holiness of merchandise is the end of hoarding, not a sacred license for later merchants to dominate, and not colonial extraction dressed as offering.