Bible Verses About Commerce: Denunciations connected with abuses of

Wailing, they will raise a lament for you; this will be their lament for you: "'"Who anywhere in the sea has ever been silenced like Tzor?

When your wares came forth from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with your vast wealth and variety of goods you enriched the kings of the earth.

But now you have been wrecked by the waves, sunk in the watery depths; your merchandise and all your people have gone down with you.

All who live along the coasts are aghast at you; their kings are horribly afraid, their faces are convulsed;

the merchants among the peoples are gasping at your fate; you are an object of terror, and you will cease to exist."'"

"'When your commerce grew, you became filled with violence; and in this way you sinned. Therefore I have thrown you out, defiled, from the mountain of God; I have destroyed you, protecting keruv, from among the stones of fire.

Your heart grew proud because of your beauty, you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. But I have thrown you on the ground; before kings I have made you a spectacle.

By your many crimes in dishonest trading, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore I brought forth fire from within you, and it has devoured you; I reduced you into ashes on the ground in the sight of all who can see you.