Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Behold, LORD will dispossess her, and he will smite her power in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire.
New American Standard Bible
And cast her wealth into the sea;
And she will be
King James Version
Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
Holman Bible
and cast her wealth into the sea;
she herself will be consumed by fire.
International Standard Version
Look! The Lord will evict her, striking at her power in the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.
American Standard Version
Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
Amplified
Behold, the Lord will
And throw her wealth into the sea;
And Tyre will be devoured by fire.
Bible in Basic English
See, the Lord will take away her heritage, overturning her power in the sea; and she will be burned up with fire.
Darby Translation
Behold, the Lord will take possession of her, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, Jehovah will dispossess her, and he struck her strength in the sea; and she shall be devoured by fire.
King James 2000
Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will destroy her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look! The Lord will drive it out and will hurl its outer ramparts into the sea, and it will be consumed by fire.
Modern King James verseion
behold, the Lord will cast her out, and He will strike her wealth in the sea, and she shall be burned up with fire.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold, the LORD shall take her in, and have her in possession: he shall smite down her power in to the sea, and she shall be consumed with fire.
NET Bible
Nevertheless the Lord will evict her and shove her fortifications into the sea -- she will be consumed by fire.
New Heart English Bible
Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! My Lord, shall dispossess her, and smite, into the sea, her fortress, - and, she herself, in fire, shall be consumed.
Webster
Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
World English Bible
Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, the Lord doth dispossess her, And He hath smitten in the sea her force, And she with fire is consumed.
Interlinear
Yarash
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Zechariah 9:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judgment Of Zion's Enemies
3 And Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. 4 Behold, LORD will dispossess her, and he will smite her power in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire. 5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear, Gaza also, and shall be greatly pained, and Ekron, for her expectation shall be put to shame. And the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
Cross References
Ezekiel 28:18
By the multitude of thine iniquities, in the unrighteousness of thy commerce, thou have profaned thy sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought forth a fire from the midst of thee. It has devoured thee, and I have turned thee to ashes u
Ezekiel 26:17
And they shall take up a lamentation over thee, and say to thee, How thou are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city that was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on a
Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:4
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Isaiah 23:1-7
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. It is revealed to them from the land of Kittim.
Ezekiel 26:3-5
therefore thus says lord LORD: Behold, I am against thee, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causes its waves to come up.
Ezekiel 27:26-36
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters. The east wind has broken thee in the heart of the seas.
Ezekiel 28:2
Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, Thus says lord LORD: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou have said, I am a god. I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas. Yet thou are man, and not God, though thou did set thy h
Ezekiel 28:8
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shall die the death of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.
Ezekiel 28:16
By the abundance of thy commerce they filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou have sinned. Therefore I have cast thee out of the mountain of God as profane, and I have destroyed thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of t
Joel 3:8
And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off. For LORD has spoken it.
Amos 1:10
But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the palaces of it.