Zechariah 9:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And Tyre doth build a bulwark to herself, And doth heap silver as dust, And gold as mire of out-places.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 19:29 : 29 and the border hath turned back to Ramah, and unto the fenced city Tyre; and the border hath turned back to Hosah, and its outgoings are at the sea, from the coast to Achzib,
  • Job 27:16 : 16 If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,
  • Ezek 28:4-5 : 4 By thy wisdom and by thine understanding Thou hast made for thee wealth, And makest gold and silver in thy treasuries. 5 By the abundance of thy wisdom, Through thy merchandise, Thou hast multiplied thy wealth, And high is thy heart through thy wealth.
  • Ezek 27:33 : 33 With the outgoing of thy remnants from the seas, Thou hast filled many peoples, With the abundance of thy riches, and thy merchandise, Thou hast made rich things of earth.
  • 2 Sam 24:7 : 7 and they come in to the fortress of Tyre, and all the cities of the Hivite, and of the Canaanite, and go out unto the south of Judah, to Beer-Sheba.
  • 1 Kgs 10:27 : 27 And the king maketh the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and the cedars he hath made as the sycamores that `are' in the low country, for abundance.
  • Job 22:24 : 24 So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering.
  • Isa 23:8 : 8 Who hath counselled this against Tyre, The crowning one, whose traders `are' princes, Her merchants the honoured of earth?'

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  • Zech 9:4
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    4Lo, the Lord doth dispossess her, And He hath smitten in the sea her force, And she with fire is consumed.

  • Zech 9:2
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    2And also Hamath doth border thereon, Tyre and Zidon, for -- very wise!

  • Ezek 26:2-5
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    77%

    2Because that Tyre hath said of Jerusalem: Aha, she hath been broken, the doors of the peoples, She hath turned round unto me, I am filled -- she hath been laid waste,

    3Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I `am' against thee, O Tyre, And have caused to come up against thee many nations, As the sea causeth its billows to come up.

    4And they have destroyed the walls of Tyre, And they have broken down her towers, And I have scraped her dust from her, And made her for a clear place of a rock.

    5A spreading place of nets she is in the midst of the sea, For I -- I have spoken -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And she hath been for a spoil to nations.

  • Ezek 27:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2`And thou, son of man, lift up concerning Tyre a lamentation, and thou hast said to Tyre:

    3O dweller on the entrances of the sea, Merchant of the peoples unto many isles, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: O Tyre, thou -- thou hast said: I `am' the perfection of beauty.

    4In the heart of the seas `are' thy borders, Thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

  • Isa 23:1-10
    10 verses
    76%

    1The Burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, For it hath been destroyed, Without house, without entrance, From the land of Chittim it was revealed to them.

    2Be silent, ye inhabitants of the isle, Trader of Zidon, passing the sea, they filled thee.

    3And in many waters `is' the seed of Sihor, The harvest of the brook `is' her increase, And she is a mart of nations.

    4Be ashamed, O Zidon; for the sea spake, The strength of the sea, saying: `I have not been pained, nor have I brought forth, Nor have I nourished young men, `nor' brought up virgins.'

    5As `at' the report of Egypt they are pained, So `at' the report of Tyre.

    6Pass over to Tarshish, howl, ye inhabitants of the isle,

    7Is this your exulting one? From the days of old `is' her antiquity, Carry her do her own feet afar off to sojourn.

    8Who hath counselled this against Tyre, The crowning one, whose traders `are' princes, Her merchants the honoured of earth?'

    9Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled it, To pollute the excellency of all beauty, To make light all the honoured of earth.

    10Pass through thy land as a brook, Daughter of Tarshish, there is no more a girdle.

  • Ezek 27:32-33
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    75%

    32And lifted up for thee have their sons a lamentation, And they have lamented over thee, who `is' as Tyre? As the cut-off one in the midst of the sea?

    33With the outgoing of thy remnants from the seas, Thou hast filled many peoples, With the abundance of thy riches, and thy merchandise, Thou hast made rich things of earth.

  • Amos 1:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their delivering up a complete captivity to Edom, And they remembered not the brotherly covenant,

    10And I have sent a fire against the wall of Tyre, And it hath consumed her palaces.

  • Joel 3:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4And also, what `are' ye to Me, O Tyre and Zidon, And all circuits of Philistia? Recompence are ye rendering unto Me? And if ye are giving recompence to Me, Swiftly, hastily, I turn back your recompence on your head.

    5In that My silver and My gold ye took, And My desirable things that are good, Ye have brought in to your temples.

  • Ezek 27:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7Of fine linen with embroidery from Egypt hath been thy sail, To be to thee for an ensign, Of blue and purple from isles of Elishah hath been thy covering.

    8Inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad have been rowers to thee, Thy wise men, O Tyre, have been in thee, They `are' thy pilots.

    9Elders of Gebal and its wise men have been in thee, Strengthening thy breach; All ships of the sea and their mariners, Have been in thee, to trade `with' thy merchandise.

  • Ezek 27:12
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    12Tarshish `is' thy merchant, Because of the abundance of all wealth, For silver, iron, tin, and lead, They have given out thy remnants.

  • Isa 23:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17And it hath come to pass, At the end of seventy years Jehovah inspecteth Tyre, And she hath repented of her gift, That she committed fornication With all kingdoms of the earth on the face of the ground.

    18And her merchandise and her gift have been holy to Jehovah, Not treasured up nor stored, For to those sitting before Jehovah is her merchandise, To eat to satiety, and for a lasting covering!

  • Jer 10:9
    71%

    9Spread-out silver from Tarshish is brought, And gold from Uphaz, Work of an artizan, and of the hands of a refiner, Blue and purple `is' their clothing, Work of the skilful -- all of them.

  • Ezek 26:15
    70%

    15Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: Do not -- from the noise of thy fall, In the groaning of the wounded, In the slaying of the slaughter in thy midst, The isles shake?

  • Ps 45:12
    69%

    12And the daughter of Tyre with a present, The rich of the people do appease thy face.

  • Isa 23:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, For your strength hath been destroyed.

    15And it hath come to pass, in that day, That forgotten is Tyre seventy years, According to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years there is to Tyre as the song of the harlot.

  • Job 3:15
    69%

    15Or with princes -- they have gold, They are filling their houses `with' silver.

  • Nah 3:14
    69%

    14Waters of a siege draw for thyself, Strengthen thy fortresses, Enter into mire, and tread on clay, Make strong a brick-kiln.

  • Job 22:24
    69%

    24So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering.

  • Nah 2:9
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    9Seize ye silver, seize ye gold, And there is no end to the prepared things, `To' the abundance of all desirable vessels.

  • Ezek 7:19
    69%

    19Their silver into out-places they cast, And their gold impurity becometh. Their silver and their gold is not able to deliver them, In a day of the wrath of Jehovah, Their soul they do not satisfy, And their bowels they do not fill, For the stumbling-block of their iniquity it hath been.

  • Ezek 28:5
    69%

    5By the abundance of thy wisdom, Through thy merchandise, Thou hast multiplied thy wealth, And high is thy heart through thy wealth.

  • Jer 25:22
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    22And all the kings of Tyre, And all the kings of Zidon, And the kings of the isle that `is' beyond the sea,

  • Ezek 27:25
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    25Ships of Tarshish `are' thy double walls of thy merchandise, And thou art filled and honoured greatly, In the heart of the seas.

  • Ezek 26:12
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    12And they have spoiled thy wealth, And they have plundered thy merchandise, And they have thrown down thy walls, And thy desirable houses they break down, And thy stones, and thy wood, and thy dust, In the midst of the waters they place.

  • Ezek 28:12
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    12`Son of man, lift up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, And thou hast said to him: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Thou art sealing up a measurement, Full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

  • Ezek 16:24
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    24That thou dost build to thee an arch, And dost make to thee a high place in every broad place.

  • Ezek 16:31
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    31In thy building thine arch at the head of every way, Thy high place thou hast made in every broad place, And -- hast not been as a whore deriding a gift.

  • Isa 25:12
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    12And the fortress of the high place of thy walls He hath bowed down -- He hath made low, He hath caused `it' to come to the earth, -- unto dust.

  • 1 Chr 29:4
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    4three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses,