Zechariah 9:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Behold, the Lord will impoverish herand cast her wealth into the sea,and she will be consumed by fire.”
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“Behold, the Lord will impoverish herand cast her wealth into the sea,and she will be consumed by fire.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Lo, the Lord doth dispossess her, And He hath smitten in the sea her force, And she with fire is consumed.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Zechariah 9:4 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Proverbs 10:2Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
- Proverbs 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
- Isaiah 23:1This 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 26:3therefore 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.
- Ezekiel 26:17Then 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 27:26Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.
- Ezekiel 28:2“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 you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
- Ezekiel 28:8They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.
- Ezekiel 28:16By 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.
- Ezekiel 28:18By 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 who saw you.
- Joel 3:8I 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.
- Amos 1:10So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.”
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