Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Therefore did Tyre build a stronghold for herself, - and did heap up silver like dust, yea gold, like the mire of the lanes.
New American Standard Bible
And
And
King James Version
And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
Holman Bible
she has heaped up silver like dust
and gold like the dirt of the streets.
International Standard Version
"Tyre built itself a fortification, hoarding silver like dust and pure gold like mud in a street.
A Conservative Version
And Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
American Standard Version
And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
Amplified
For Tyre built herself an [impregnable] stronghold [on an island offshore],
And she has heaped up silver like dust
And gold like the mire of the streets.
Bible in Basic English
And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets.
Darby Translation
And Tyre hath built herself a stronghold, and hath heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
Julia Smith Translation
And Tyre will build for herself a fortress, and she will heap up silver as the dust, and gold as the mud of the streets.
King James 2000
And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Tyre has built a fortification for itself, and it heaped up silver like dust, and gold like [the] mud of [the] streets.
Modern King James verseion
And Tyre shall build herself a stronghold, and shall heap up silver like the dust, and gold like the mud of the streets;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Tyre shall make herself strong, and heap up silver as the sand, and gold as the clay of the streets.
NET Bible
Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!
New Heart English Bible
Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
Webster
And Tyre built herself a strong hold, and amassed silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
World English Bible
Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Tyre doth build a bulwark to herself, And doth heap silver as dust, And gold as mire of out-places.
Themes
greed » Avaricious men, examples of » The people of tyre
Philistines » Prophecies respecting » Dismay at ruin of tyre
Interlinear
Banah
Matsowr
Charuwts
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Zechariah 9:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judgment Of Zion's Enemies
2 Moreover also, Hamath, adjoineth thereto, Tyre and Zidon, - because very wise; 3 Therefore did Tyre build a stronghold for herself, - and did heap up silver like dust, yea gold, like the mire of the lanes. 4 Lo! My Lord, shall dispossess her, and smite, into the sea, her fortress, - and, she herself, in fire, shall be consumed.
Phrases
Cross References
Joshua 19:29
and the boundary turneth to Ramah, and as far as the city of the fortress of Tyre, - then the boundary turneth to Hosah, and so the extensions thereof are, on the west, from Hebel to Achzib;
Job 27:16
Though he heap up silver like, dust, and, like a pile, he prepare clothing,
Ezekiel 28:4-5
In thy wisdom and in thine understanding, hast thou gotten thee wealth, - And hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasuries:
2 Samuel 24:7
and entered the fortress of Tyre, and all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites, - and they went out to the South of Judah, even to Beer-sheba.
1 Kings 10:27
And the king caused silver in Jerusalem to be as stones, - cedars also, caused he to be as the sycamores that are in the lowlands, for abundance.
Ezekiel 27:33
By the going forth of thy commodities out of the seas, Thou didst satisfy many peoples, By the multitude of thy wares and of thy merchandise, Thou didst enrich the kings of the earth.
Job 22:24
Then lay up, in the dust, precious ore, and, among the stones of the torrent-beds, fine gold:
Isaiah 23:8
Who hath purposed this, against Tyre, The bestower of crowns, - Whose merchants are princes, Her traders the honourable of the earth?