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translationWords
- en:tw:devour
- en:tw:fire
- en:tw:gold
- en:tw:gold
- en:tw:lordgod
- en:tw:lordgod
- en:tw:silver
- en:tw:silver
- en:tw:stronghold
- en:tw:stronghold
translationNotes
- built herself a stronghold - Here the city of Tyre is pictured as a woman. AT: "built a strong fortress" or "built a high wall" (See :en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_personification)
- heaped up silver like dust and refined gold like mud in the streets - AT: "accumulated silver and gold as much as soil in the streets" (See :en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_hyperbole)
- Look! The Lord will dispossess her - AT: "Pay attention! The Lord will take away Tyre's possessions"
- and destroy her strength on the sea - AT: "and destroy Tyre's ships in which men fight on the sea" (See: :en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_synecdoche)
- so she will be devoured by fire - AT: "and burn the city to the ground"