Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:

Bible References

The merchants

Revelation 18:3
for all nations have drunken of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and her merchants are waxed rich of the abundance of her pleasures."
Revelation 13:16
And he made all men, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hands, or in their foreheads.
Isaiah 23:1
The burden of Tyre. Mourn, ye ships of Tarshish, for there cometh such destruction that ye shall not have a house to enter into. Out of the land of Chittim they have knowledge of this plague.
Isaiah 47:15
Even so shall they be unto thee whom thou hast used and occupied from thy youth. Every one shall show thee his erroneous way, yet shall none of them defend thee.
Ezekiel 26:17
They shall mourn for thee, and say unto thee, 'O thou noble city, that hast been so greatly occupied of old, thou that hast been the strongest upon the sea with thine inhabiters of whom all men stood in fear: How art thou now so utterly destroyed?'
Ezekiel 27:27
so that thy wares, thy merchandise, thy riches, thy mariners, thy shipmasters, thy helpers, thy occupiers that brought the things necessary, the men of war that are in thee: Yea, and all thy commons shall perish in the midst of the sea, in the day of thy fall.
Zephaniah 1:11
Howl, ye that dwell in the mill! For all the merchant people are gone, and all they that were laden with silver, are rooted out.

Buyeth

Proverbs 3:14
for the getting of it is better than any merchandise of silver, and the profit of it is better than gold.
Matthew 22:5
But they made light of it, and went their ways: one to his firm place, another about his merchandise:
John 2:16
And said unto them that sold doves, "Have these things hence, and make not my father's house a house of merchandise."
2 Peter 2:3
and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment is not far off, and their damnation sleepeth not.