"You did business in Spain and took silver, iron, tin, and lead in payment for your abundant goods.

You sold your goods for workhorses, war-horses, and mules from Beth Togarmah.

The people of Syria bought your merchandise and your many products. They gave emeralds, purple cloth, embroidery, fine linen, coral, and rubies in payment for your wares.

The people of Damascus bought your merchandise and your products, paying for them with wine from Helbon and wool from Sahar. They traded wrought iron and spices for your goods.

The people of Dedan traded saddle blankets for your goods.

For your goods the merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded jewels, gold, and the finest spices.

They sold you luxurious clothing, purple cloth, and embroidery, brightly colored carpets, and well-made cords and ropes.

When your oarsmen brought you out to sea, An east wind wrecked you far from land.

The shouts of the drowning sailors Echoed on the shore.

They all mourn bitterly for you, Throwing dust on their heads and rolling in ashes.

They chant a funeral song for you: 'Who can be compared to Tyre, To Tyre now silent in the sea?

Now you are wrecked in the sea; You have sunk to the ocean depths. Your goods and all who worked for you Have vanished with you in the sea.'

You are gone, gone forever, and merchants all over the world are terrified, afraid that they will share your fate."

When the seventy years are over, the LORD will let Tyre go back to her old trade, and she will hire herself out to all the kingdoms of the world.

The money she earns by commerce will be dedicated to the LORD. She will not store it away, but those who worship the LORD will use her money to buy the food and the clothing they need.

The LORD says, "The people of Israel are as dishonest as the Canaanites; they love to cheat their customers with false scales.

Then Jesus went into the Temple and began to drive out the merchants,

saying to them, "It is written in the Scriptures that God said, 'My Temple will be a house of prayer.' But you have turned it into a hideout for thieves!"

and he ordered those who sold the pigeons, "Take them out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and are caught in the trap of many foolish and harmful desires, which pull them down to ruin and destruction.

For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil. Some have been so eager to have it that they have wandered away from the faith and have broken their hearts with many sorrows.

The LORD said to me, "Mortal man, do you see that? These people of Judah are not satisfied with merely doing all the disgusting things you have seen here and with spreading violence throughout the country. No, they must come and do them right here in the Temple and make me even more angry. Look how they insult me in the most offensive way possible!

but everyone else was evil in God's sight, and violence had spread everywhere.

Announce to those who live in the palaces of Egypt and Ashdod: "Gather together in the hills around Samaria and see the great disorder and the crimes being committed there."

When they want fields, they seize them; when they want houses, they take them. No one's family or property is safe.

Your rich people exploit the poor, and all of you are liars.

You have plundered the people of many nations, but now those who have survived will plunder you because of the murders you have committed and because of your violence against the people of the world and its cities.

You have cut down the forests of Lebanon; now you will be cut down. You killed its animals; now animals will terrify you. This will happen because of the murders you have committed and because of your violence against the people of the world and its cities.

I will punish all who worship like pagans and who steal and kill in order to fill their master's house with loot.

Then at the east side of the garden he put living creatures and a flaming sword which turned in all directions. This was to keep anyone from coming near the tree that gives life.

Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these acts, for that is how the pagans made themselves unclean, those pagans who lived in the land before you and whom the LORD is driving out so that you can go in.

They did all these disgusting things and made the land unclean, but you must not do them. All of you, whether Israelites or foreigners living with you, must keep the LORD's laws and commands,

and then the land will not reject you, as it rejected the pagans who lived there before you.

The LORD will remove you from office and bring you down from your high position."

The LORD Almighty planned it. He planned it in order to put an end to their pride in what they had done and to humiliate their honored ones.

Get up and go; there is no safety here any more. Your sins have doomed this place to destruction.

God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell, where they are kept chained in darkness, waiting for the Day of Judgment.

God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, destroying them with fire, and made them an example of what will happen to the godless.

The huge dragon was thrown out---that ancient serpent, named the Devil, or Satan, that deceived the whole world. He was thrown down to earth, and all his angels with him.