Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"Tyre built itself a fortification, hoarding silver like dust and pure gold like mud in a street.
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.
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.
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.
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 Also Hamath, which borders on it along with Tyre and Sidon indeed they are very wise. 3 "Tyre built itself a fortification, hoarding silver like dust and pure gold like mud in a street. 4 Look! The Lord will evict her, striking at her power in the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.
Phrases
Cross References
Joshua 19:29
There the boundary turned toward Ramah, reaching to the fortress city of Tyre and turned to Hosah, where it terminated at the Mediterranean Sea.
Job 27:16
"Though he hoards silver like dust, and stores away garments like clay,
Ezekiel 28:4-5
Your wisdom and understanding brought you phenomenal wealth. You've brought gold and silver into your treasuries.
2 Samuel 24:7
and arrived at the fortified city of Tyre and all of the towns of the Hivites and Canaanites.
1 Kings 10:27
The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and made cedar trees as abundant as sycamore trees in the Shephelah.
Ezekiel 27:33
Your merchandise went out over the oceans to satisfy many nations; with the abundance of your wealth you enriched the kings of the earth.
Job 22:24
Bury your gold nuggets in the dust, and your source of gold among the stones in a streambed,
Isaiah 23:8
Who has planned this against Tyre, that bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the most renowned on earth?