Bible Verses About Commerce

He silenced the storm and stilled its waves,

and they rejoiced as the sea grew calm. Then he brought them safely to their desired port.

She is like those merchant vessels, bringing her food from far away.

It's still dark when she rises to give food to her household and orders to the young women serving her.

She considers a field, then buys it, and from her earnings she plants a vineyard.

She gathers her strength around her and throws herself into her work.

She sees that her business affairs go well; her lamp stays lit at night.

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.

“For all the nations have drunk of the wine of God’s fury caused by her whoring — yes, the kings of the earth went whoring with her, and from her unrestrained love of luxury the world’s businessmen have grown rich.”

Then I heard another voice out of heaven say: “My people, come out of her! so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not be infected by her plagues,

for her sins are a sticky mass piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.

“Render to her as she rendered to others! Pay her back double for what she has done! Use the cup in which she has brewed to brew her a double-sized drink!

“Give her as much torment and sorrow as the glory and luxury she gave herself! For in her heart she says, ‘I sit a queen — I am not a widow, I will never see sorrow.’

“Therefore, her plagues will come in a single day — death, sorrow and famine; and she will be burned with fire, because Adonai, God, her Judge, is mighty”

The kings of the earth who went whoring with her and shared her luxury will sob and wail over her when they see the smoke as she burns.

Standing at a distance, for fear of her torment, they will say, “Oh no! The great city! Bavel, the mighty city! In a single hour your judgment has come!”

The world’s businessmen weep and mourn over her, because no one is buying their merchandise any more —

stocks of gold and silver, gems and pearls, fine linen and purple, silk and scarlet, all rare woods, all ivory goods, all kinds of things made of scented wood, brass, iron and marble;