Zechariah 9:3
Good News Translation
Tyre has built fortifications for herself and has piled up so much silver and gold that it is as common as dirt!

New Revised Standard Version
Tyre has built itself a rampart, and heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.

Contemporary English Version
Tyre has built a fortress and piled up silver and gold, as though they were dust or mud from the streets.

New American Bible
Tyre built itself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the mud of the streets.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.

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And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.

build.

Joshua 19:29 And it returneth to Horma to the strong city of Tyre, and to Hosa: and the outgoings thereof shall be at the sea from the portion of Achziba:

2 Samuel 24:7 They passed near the walls of Tyre, and all the land of the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and they came to the south of Juda into Bersabee:

heaped.

1 Kings 10:27 And he made silver to be as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars to be as common as sycamores which grow in the plains.

Job 22:24 He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.

Job 27:16 If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

Isaiah 23:8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, that was formerly crowned, whose merchants were princes, and her traders the nobles of the earth?

Ezekiel 27:33 Which by thy merchandise that went from thee by sea didst fill many people: which by the multitude of thy riches, and of thy people didst enrich the kings of the earth.

Ezekiel 28:4,5 In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou hast made thyself strong: and hast gotten gold an silver into thy treasures. . . .

Context
Judgement Against Israel's Enemies
2Emath also in the borders thereof, and Tyre, and Sidon: for they have taken to themselves to be exceeding wise. 3And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.4Behold the Lord shall possess her, and shall strike her strength in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire.…
Cross References
Joshua 19:29
And it returneth to Horma to the strong city of Tyre, and to Hosa: and the outgoings thereof shall be at the sea from the portion of Achziba:

2 Samuel 24:7
They passed near the walls of Tyre, and all the land of the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and they came to the south of Juda into Bersabee:

1 Kings 10:21
Moreover, all the vessels out of which king Solomon drank, were of gold: and all the furniture of the house of the forest of Libanus was of most pure gold: there was no silver, nor was any account made of it in the days of Solomon:

1 Kings 10:27
And he made silver to be as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars to be as common as sycamores which grow in the plains.

Job 27:16
If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

Isaiah 23:11
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he troubled kingdoms: the Lord hath given a charge against Chanaan, to destroy the strong ones thereof.

Ezekiel 26:12
They shall waste thy riches, they shall make a spoil of thy merchandise: and they shall destroy thy walls, and pull down thy fine houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the waters.

Ezekiel 27:33
Which by thy merchandise that went from thee by sea didst fill many people: which by the multitude of thy riches, and of thy people didst enrich the kings of the earth.

Ezekiel 27:34
Now thou art destroyed by the sea, thy riches are in the bottom of the waters, and all the multitude that was in the midst of thee is fallen.

Ezekiel 28:4
In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou hast made thyself strong: and hast gotten gold an silver into thy treasures.

Ezekiel 28:5
By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou hast increased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted up with thy strength.

Zechariah 9:2
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