Parallel Verses
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.
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.
A Conservative Version
Behold, LORD will dispossess her, and he will smite her power in the sea, and she shall be devoured with 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.
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 did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. 4 Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will destroy her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire. 5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
Cross References
Ezekiel 28:18
You have defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your trading; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of you, it shall devour you, and I will bring you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold you.
Ezekiel 26:17
And they shall take up a lamentation for you, and say to you, How are you destroyed, that were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, which was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who cause their terror to be on all that inhabit it!
Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:4
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivers from death.
Isaiah 23:1-7
The burden concerning Tyre. Wail, you ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
Ezekiel 26:3-5
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.
Ezekiel 27:26-36
Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the midst of the seas.
Ezekiel 28:2
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are a man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God:
Ezekiel 28:8
They shall bring you down to the pit, and you shall die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
Ezekiel 28:16
By the multitude of your trade they have filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I will cast you as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Joel 3:8
And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD has spoken it.
Amos 1:10
But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, which shall devour its palaces.