Ezekiel 27:3
and say to Tyre, who lives at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
Ezekiel 27:4
“Your borders are in the heart of the seas;
Your builders have perfected your beauty.
Psalm 50:2
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God has shone forth.
Isaiah 23:2-3
Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland,
You
Isaiah 23:8-9
Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?
Isaiah 23:11
He has stretched out His hand over the sea,
He has shaken the kingdoms;
The Lord has given a command concerning Canaan to destroy her strongholds and her fortresses [like Tyre and Sidon].
Ezekiel 26:17
They will take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for you and say to you,
From the seas, O renowned city,
Which was mighty on the sea,
She and her inhabitants,
Who imposed her terror
On all who lived there!
Ezekiel 27:10-36
“Persia and Lud and Put (Libya) were in your army as your men of war. They hung the shield and the helmet on you; they gave you splendor.
Ezekiel 28:2-3
“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
And you have said and thought, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods
In the heart of the seas’;
Yet you are [only] a man [weak, feeble, made of earth] and not God,
Though you [imagine yourself to be more than mortal and] think your mind is as [wise as] the mind of God—
Ezekiel 28:12-17
“Son of man, take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for the king of Tyre and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
Revelation 18:3
For all the nations have drunk from the wine of the passion of her [sexual] immorality, and the kings and political leaders of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth and economic power of her sensuous luxury.”
Revelation 18:11-15
“And merchants of the earth will weep and grieve over her, because no one buys their cargo (goods, merchandise) anymore—
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
A merchant
Bible References
O thou
“Your borders are in the heart of the seas;
Your builders have perfected your beauty.
From the seas, O renowned city,
Which was mighty on the sea,
She and her inhabitants,
Who imposed her terror
On all who lived there!
And you have said and thought, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods
In the heart of the seas’;
Yet you are [only] a man [weak, feeble, made of earth] and not God,
Though you [imagine yourself to be more than mortal and] think your mind is as [wise as] the mind of God—
Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland,
You
A merchant
And they were on great waters.
The grain of the
And she was the market of nations.
I am
“Your borders are in the heart of the seas;
Your builders have perfected your beauty.
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God has shone forth.
The Lord of hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all beauty,
To bring into contempt and humiliation all the honored of the earth.