Tyre shall recover its splendour at the termination of seventy years, the days of ONE king, or kingdom , by which must be meant the time allotted for the duration of the Babylonish empire, as otherwise the prophecy cannot be accommodated to the event, 15-17. Supposed reference to the early conversion of Tyre to Christianity, 18. 32 N. was built two thousand seven hundred and sixty years before Christ . This prophecy denounces the destruction of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar. This seems to be the most probable interpretation of this verse.
Silence is a mark of grief and consternation.
The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. The Nile is called here Shichor, as it is Jer. See Servius on the above line of Virgil, Georg. It was called Siris by the Ethiopians , by some supposed to be the same with Shichor. Egypt by its extraordinary fertility, caused by the overflowing of the Nile supplied the neighbouring nations with corn, by which branch of trade the Tyrians gained great wealth .