Behold, the Lord will impoverish her and cast her wealth into the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.
Parallel translations
- WEB Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.
- KJV Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
- NKJV Behold, the Lord will cast her out; He will destroy her power in the sea, And she will be devoured by fire.
- NASB Behold, the Lord will dispossess her And throw her wealth into the sea; And she will be consumed with fire.
- NLT But now the Lord will strip away Tyre’s possessions and hurl its fortifications into the sea, and it will be burned to the ground.
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Quick answer
The Lord will dispossess Tyre, cast her wealth into the sea, and consume her with fire. No human power can withstand God's judgment.
Overview
Despite her defenses, Tyre will be stripped of her riches and destroyed, a prophecy historically fulfilled when Alexander the Great took the city. The verse demonstrates that God brings low the proud and self-sufficient. It assures God's people that worldly powers, however formidable, are subject to the Lord's righteous judgment.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ezek 28:18By the multitude of your iniquities and the dishonesty of your trading you have profaned your sanctuaries. So I made fire come from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the eyes of all who saw you.
- Amos 1:10So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.”
- Ezek 26:17Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men—she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!
- Prov 10:2Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
- Isa 23:1–7This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
- Prov 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
- Joel 3:8I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
- Ezek 27:26–36Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.
- Ezek 26:3–5therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
- 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 28:8They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.
- Ezek 28:2“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
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