The merchandise you traded satisfied the desires of many nations. Kings at the ends of the earth were enriched by your trade.
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.
- 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.
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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 18:19They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For she is made desolate in one hour.
- Rev 18:3For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”
- Ezek 28:16By the abundance of your traffic they filled your insides with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.
- Ezek 27:3and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty.
- Isa 23:3–8On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.
- Rev 18:12–15merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;
- Ezek 27:12–36Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for your wares.
- Ezek 28:4–5by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
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