Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay,
Tyre has built herself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets.
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, “Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?— and loads himself with pledges!”
if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed,
And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.
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