Contradictions and Paradoxes in Isaiah 23:15

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Isaiah 23:15 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Isaiah 23:15. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Isaiah, this means that the city of Tyre will be ignored or quiet for seventy years, like a long time while one king rules. After seventy years, Tyre will be busy and noisy again, like when a performer sings loudly to get attention.

Isaiah 23:15: 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. [shall Tyre...: Heb. it shall be unto Tyre as the song of an harlot]

Contradiction with Jeremiah 50:39

Isaiah 23:15 mentions Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, while Jeremiah 50:39 speaks of Babylon never being inhabited, suggesting a permanent desolation.

Jeremiah 50:39: Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell [there], and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

Contradiction with Isaiah 13:20

Isaiah 23:15 implies a temporary period of forgetting Tyre, whereas Isaiah 13:20 states Babylon will never be lived in again, indicating an eternal desolation.

Isaiah 13:20: It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

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