When your wares went out to sea, you satisfied many nations. You enriched the kings of the earth with your abundant wealth and merchandise.
Parallel translations
- WEB When your wares went out of the seas, you filled many peoples; you enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.
- KJV When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
- NKJV ‘Whenyour wares went out by sea, You satisfied many people; You enriched the kings of the earth With your many luxury goods and your merchandise.
- NASB ‘When your merchandise went out from the seas, You satisfied many peoples; With the abundance of your wealth and your merchandise You enriched the kings of the earth.
- NLT The merchandise you traded satisfied the desires of many nations. Kings at the ends of the earth were enriched by your trade.
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Quick answer
Tyre once enriched many peoples and kings with her abundant trade. It recalls her former blessing to the nations now lost.
Overview
At her height Tyre satisfied many lands and made kings wealthy through her commerce. The recollection of past prosperity deepens the pathos of her ruin. It also subtly cautions the nations that the source of their gain was perishable, and that true and lasting riches are found only in the Lord.
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Cross-references · 8
- Rev 18:19Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been destroyed.”
- Rev 18:3All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”
- Ezek 28:16By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
- Ezek 27:3Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
- Isa 23:3–8On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations.
- Rev 18:12–15cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;
- Ezek 27:12–36Tarshish was your merchant because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares.
- Ezek 28:4–5By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries.
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