Zechariah 9:4 “Behold, the Lord will impoverish her and cast her wealth into the sea,…”

Zechariah 9:4

Behold, the Lord will impoverish her and cast her wealth into the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

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.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Beholde, the Lord wil spoyle her, and he wil smite her power in the Sea, and she shalbe deuoured 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.

Young's Literal Translation

Lo, the Lord doth dispossess her, And He hath smitten in the sea her force, And she with fire is consumed.

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.

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Cross references

“the Lord”

Proverbs 10:2 Proverbs 11:4 Isaiah 23:1–7 Ezekiel 28:16 Joel 3:8

Proverbs 10:2 · BSB

Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

Proverbs 11:4 · BSB

Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

Isaiah 23:1–7 · BSB

This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.

Ezekiel 28:16 · BSB

By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.

Joel 3:8 · BSB

I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

“he will”

Ezekiel 26:17 Ezekiel 27:26–36 Ezekiel 28:2 Ezekiel 28:8

Ezekiel 26:17 · BSB

Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men— she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!

Ezekiel 27:26–36 · BSB

Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.

Ezekiel 28:2 · BSB

“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though yo…

Ezekiel 28:8 · BSB

They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.

“shall”

Ezekiel 28:18 Amos 1:10

Ezekiel 28:18 · BSB

By the multitude of your iniquities and the dishonesty of your trading you have profaned your sanctuaries. So I made fire come from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the eyes of all…

Amos 1:10 · BSB

So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.”

Also

Ezekiel 26:3–5

Ezekiel 26:3–5 · BSB

therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.

5Ashkelon will see and fear; Gaza will writhe in agony, as will Ekron, for her hope will wither. There will cease to be a king in Gaza, and Ashkelon will be uninhabited.

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