And I will silence the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more, using auditory imagery to represent the cessation of joy and cultural vitality that characterized Tyre's existence. The silencing of music—a universal symbol of human flourishing and celebration—suggests a kind of death-in-life where the city persists but stripped of everything that made it worth living in. This metaphorical death of culture anticipates the physical destruction to come.

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