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Zechariah 9:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Tyre built itself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the mud of the streets.

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going to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites, and ending up in the Negeb of Judah, at Beer-sheba.

All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were gold, and all the utensils in the house of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, for in Solomon’s time silver was reckoned as nothing.

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as numerous as the sycamores of the Shephelah.

And treat raw gold as dust, the fine gold of Ophir as pebbles in the wadi,

Though he heap up silver like dust and store away mounds of clothing,

Or with princes who had gold and filled their houses with silver.

His hand he stretches out over the sea, he shakes kingdoms; The Lord commanded the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds:

Who has planned such a thing against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, Whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the earth’s honored men?

They shall plunder your wealth and pillage your goods; They will tear down your walls and demolish your splendid houses. Your stones, timbers, and debris they will cast into the sea.

Your wealth, your goods, your wares, your sailors, your crew, The caulkers of your seams, those who traded for your goods, All the warriors with you, the whole crowd with you Sank into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall.

By exporting your goods by sea you satisfied many peoples, With your great wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.

Now you are wrecked in the sea, in the watery depths; Your wares and all your crew have fallen down with you.

The word of the Lord came to me:

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and now four— I will not take it back— Because they handed over an entire population to Edom, and did not remember their covenant of brotherhood,

Then the boundary turned back to Ramah and to the fortress city of Tyre; thence it cut back to Hosah and ended at the sea. Thus, with Mahalab, Achzib,




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