Isaiah 23:16
ContextNET © | “Take the harp, go through the city, forgotten prostitute! Play it well, play lots of songs, so you’ll be noticed!” 1 |
NIV © | "Take up a harp, walk through the city, O prostitute forgotten; play the harp well, sing many a song, so that you will be remembered." |
NASB © | Take your harp, walk about the city, O forgotten harlot; Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs, That you may be remembered. |
NLT © | Long absent from her lovers, she will take a harp, walk the streets, and sing her songs, so that she will again be remembered. |
MSG © | "Take a harp, circle the city, unremembered whore. Sing your old songs, your many old songs. Maybe someone will remember." |
BBE © | Take an instrument of music, go about the town, O loose woman who has gone out from the memory of man; make sweet melody with songs, so that you may come back to men’s minds. |
NRSV © | Take a harp, go about the city, you forgotten prostitute! Make sweet melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered. |
NKJV © | "Take a harp, go about the city, You forgotten harlot; Make sweet melody, sing many songs, That you may be remembered." |
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NET © | “Take the harp, go through the city, forgotten prostitute! Play it well, play lots of songs, so you’ll be noticed!” 1 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “so you will be remembered.” |