Zechariah 9:4

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

Literal

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

Latin

Ecce Dominus possidebit eam: et percutiet in mari fortitudinem ejus, et hæc igni devorabitur.

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Zechariah 9:3–4

The term fortress (Hebrew matsor) is a play on words with the name of the city of Tyre (Hebrew tsor). This famous island fortress (Isaiah 23:4; Ezekiel 26:5) was captured and destroyed by Alexander the Great in 332 BC.

Zechariah 9:1–8

This message reassured the Judeans that they should not fear their three main neighbors:

Syria (Aram),
the Phoenicians (Tyre and Sidon), and
the Philistines.

These neighbors were rivals of Judah and often tried to gain commercial and territorial advantages. God said their efforts would fail.

Theme notes and profiles

Apocalyptic Literature

Events

Prophecies of Zechariahc. 520 BC

Related verses

Ezekiel 28:18
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 who saw you.
Ezekiel 26:17
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!
Amos 1:10
So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.”
Proverbs 11:4
Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Ezekiel 28:16
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.
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.
Isaiah 23:1–7
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.
Joel 3:8
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.
Proverbs 10:2
Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Ezekiel 27:26–36
Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.
Ezekiel 26:3–5
…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.
Ezekiel 28:8
They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.

People

LORD: Names or title used to refer to God

Glossary

Gaza Zechariah, Book of

Topics

Tyre: Prophecies Respecting: Its Second Destruction by the Macedonians

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