At the end of seventy years, the LORD will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
17. Jehovah will visit Tyre. {Bogus footnote} Although the Lord will afflict Tyre in such a manner that she will appear to be ruined, yet he declares that she will obtain mercy, because, rising at length out of her ruins, she will be restored to her former vigor.
Here is, I. The time fixed for the continuance of the desolations of Tyre, which were not to be perpetual desolations: Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, Isa 23:15. So long it shall lie neglected and buried in obscurity. It was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar much about the time that Jerusalem was, and lay as long as it did in its ruins. See the folly of that proud ambitious conqueror.
Commenting on Isaiah 23:15-18
And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years,.... When the seventy years before mentioned are ended: that the Lord will visit Tyre; not in judgment, as before, but in mercy: and she shall return to her hire; trade and merchandise; that shall revive, and be as in times past: and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world, upon...