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.
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.
- BSB When your wares went out to sea, you satisfied many nations. You enriched the kings of the earth with your abundant wealth and 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 18:19And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
- Rev 18:3For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
- Ezek 28:16By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
- Ezek 27:3And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
- Isa 23:3–8And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
- Rev 18:12–15The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
- Ezek 27:12–36Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
- Ezek 28:4–5With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
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