Cultivate your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish;
Daughter Tarshish is told to overflow her land freely because Tyre's restraint is gone.
This verse marks the breakdown of Tyre's former controlling power.
1This is the burden against Tyre: 2Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland, 3On the great waters 4Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, 5When the report reaches Egypt, 6Cross over to Tarshish; 7Is this your jubilant city, 8Who planned this against Tyre, 9The LORD of Hosts planned it, 10Cultivate your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish; 11The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; 12He said, “You shall rejoice no more, 13Look at the land of the Chaldeans — 14Wail, O ships of Tarshish, 15At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years— the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot: 16“Take up your harp, 17And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. 18Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.