Zechariah 9:3

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

WEB

Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.

ASV

And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

LSV

And Tyre builds a bulwark for herself, || And heaps silver as dust, || And gold as mire of out-places.

YLT

And Tyre doth build a bulwark to herself, And doth heap silver as dust, And gold as mire of out-places.

DBY

And Tyre hath built herself a stronghold, and hath heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

DRC

And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.

GNV

For Tyrus did build her selfe a strong holde, and heaped vp siluer as the dust, and golde as the myre of the streetes.

JPS

And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

LXXE

And Tyrus built strong-holds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וַתִּ֥בֶן צֹ֛ר מָצ֖וֹר לָ֑הּ וַתִּצְבָּר־כֶּ֨סֶף֙ כֶּֽעָפָ֔ר וְחָר֖וּץ כְּטִ֥יט חוּצֽוֹת׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε Τύρος ὀχυρώματα αὐτῇ, καὶ ἐθησαύρισεν ἀργύριον ὡς χοῦν, καὶ συνήγαγε χρυσίον ὡς πηλὸν ὁδῶν.

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• Job 27:16Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
• Joshua 19:29The border then turned back toward Ramah as far as the fortified city of Tyre, turned toward Hosah, and came out at the Sea in the region of Achzib,
• Ezekiel 28:4–5By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries. By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it.
• Ezekiel 27:33When your wares went out to sea, you satisfied many nations. You enriched the kings of the earth with your abundant wealth and merchandise.
• Isaiah 23:8Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?
• 2 Samuel 24:7They went toward the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites. Finally, they went on to the Negev of Judah, to Beersheba.
• 1 Kings 10:27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
• Job 22:24and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

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