Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
Parallel translations
- KJV And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
- BSB Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.
- NKJV For Tyre built herself a tower, Heaped up silver like the dust, And gold like the mire of the streets.
- NASB For Tyre built herself a fortress, And piled up silver like dust, And gold like the mud of the streets.
- NLT Tyre has built a strong fortress and has made silver and gold as plentiful as dust in the streets!
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- Ezek 27:33When 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.
- Job 27:16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
- Ezek 28:4–5by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
- Josh 19:29The border turned to Ramah, to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the region of Achzib;
- 2 Sam 24:7and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.
- Isa 23:8Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?
- Job 22:24Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
- 1 Kgs 10:27The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
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