10 Then out came a woman to meet him,
    dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.

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14 She sits at the door of her house,
    on a seat at the highest point of the city,(A)
15 calling out(B) to those who pass by,
    who go straight on their way,
16     “Let all who are simple come to my house!”
To those who have no sense(C) she says,
17     “Stolen water is sweet;
    food eaten in secret is delicious!(D)

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15 At that time Tyre(A) will be forgotten for seventy years,(B) the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

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16 “Take up a harp, walk through the city,
    you forgotten prostitute;(A)
play the harp well, sing many a song,
    so that you will be remembered.”

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13 I will punish her for the days
    she burned incense(A) to the Baals;(B)
she decked herself with rings and jewelry,(C)
    and went after her lovers,(D)
    but me she forgot,(E)
declares the Lord.(F)

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