Ezekiel 26:12

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Ezekiel 26:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 His multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.

11 The hooves of his horses will trample all your streets. He will slaughter your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.

12 They will plunder your wealth and pillage your merchandise. They will demolish your walls, tear down your beautiful homes, and throw your stones and timber and soil into the water.

13 So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.

14 I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread the fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.’

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Ezekiel 26:5

She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,

Matthew 6:19

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

Matthew 6:20

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

Ezekiel 27:3

Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’

Ezekiel 27:4

Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.

Ezekiel 27:5

They constructed all your planking with cypress from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

Ezekiel 27:6

Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; of wood from the coasts of Cyprus they made your deck, inlaid with ivory.

Ezekiel 27:7

Of embroidered fine linen from Egypt they made your sail, which served as your banner. Of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah they made your awning.

Ezekiel 27:8

The men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your men of skill, O Tyre, were there as your captains.

Ezekiel 27:9

The elders of Gebal were aboard as shipwrights, repairing your leaks. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to barter for your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27:10

Men of Persia, Lydia, and Put served as warriors in your army. They hung their shields and helmets on your walls; they gave you splendor.

Ezekiel 27:11

Men of Arvad and Helech manned your walls all around, and the men of Gammad were in your towers. They hung their shields around your walls; they perfected your beauty.

Ezekiel 27:12

Tarshish was your merchant because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares.

Ezekiel 27:13

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your merchants. They exchanged slaves and bronze utensils for your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27:14

The men of Beth-togarmah exchanged horses, war horses, and mules for your wares.

Ezekiel 27:15

The men of Dedan were your clients; many coastlands were your market; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.

Ezekiel 27:16

Aram was your customer because of your many products; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your wares.

Ezekiel 27:17

Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith, cakes and honey, oil and balm for your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27:18

Because of your many products and your great wealth of goods, Damascus traded with you wine from Helbon, wool from Zahar,

Ezekiel 27:19

and casks of wine from Izal for your wares. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were exchanged for your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27:20

Dedan was your merchant in saddlecloths for riding.

Ezekiel 27:21

Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers, trading in lambs, rams, and goats.

Ezekiel 27:22

The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; for your wares they exchanged gold, the finest of all spices, and precious stones.

Ezekiel 27:23

Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you, and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.

Ezekiel 27:24

In your marketplace they traded with you fine garments of blue, embroidered work, and multicolored rugs with cords tightly twisted and knotted.

Ezekiel 27:25

The ships of Tarshish carried your merchandise. And you were filled with heavy cargo in the heart of the sea.

Ezekiel 27:26

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

Ezekiel 27:27

Your wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the warriors within you, with all the other people on board, will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall.

Ezekiel 27:28

The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.

Ezekiel 27:29

All who handle the oars will abandon their ships. The sailors and all the captains of the sea will stand on the shore.

Ezekiel 27:30

They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.

Ezekiel 27:31

They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning.

Ezekiel 27:32

As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament for you: ‘Who was ever like Tyre, silenced in the middle of the sea?

Ezekiel 27:33

When your wares went out to sea, you satisfied many nations. You enriched the kings of the earth with your abundant wealth and merchandise.

Ezekiel 27:34

Now you are shattered by the seas in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and the people among you have gone down with you.

Ezekiel 27:35

All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.

Ezekiel 27:36

Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”

Isaiah 23:8

Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?

Isaiah 23:11

The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.

Isaiah 23:17

And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

Isaiah 23:18

Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.

Zechariah 9:3

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

Zechariah 9:4

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

Revelation 18:11

And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo—

Revelation 18:12

cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;

Revelation 18:13

of cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; of wine, olive oil, fine flour, and wheat; of cattle, sheep, horses, and chariots; of slaves and souls of men.

2 Chronicles 32:27

Hezekiah had very great riches and honor, and he made treasuries for his silver, gold, precious stones, spices, shields, and all kinds of valuable articles.

2 Chronicles 36:10

In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

Isaiah 32:12

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,

Jeremiah 25:34

Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.

Daniel 11:8

He will take even their gods captive to Egypt, with their metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold. For some years he will stay away from the king of the North,

Hosea 13:15

Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come— a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

Nahum 2:9

“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.

Zechariah 7:14

But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”