Will partners ¹  bargain ²  for it? Will they divide it up ³  among the merchants?

Haran, Kanneh, Eden, merchants from Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad were your clients.

Lament, ¹  you residents of the coast, you merchants of Sidon ²  who travel over the sea, whose agents sail over

And between the room above the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and traders worked.

The traders and sellers of all kinds of merchandise spent the night outside Jerusalem once or twice.

Increase ¹  your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like ²  the young locust which sheds ³  its skin and flies away.

Then ¹  the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her because no one buys their cargo ²  any longer –

besides what he collected from the merchants, ¹  traders, Arabian kings, and governors of the land.

Who planned this for royal Tyre, ¹  whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries ²  of the earth?

He plucked off its topmost shoot; he brought it to a land of merchants and planted it in a city of traders.

The merchants of Sheba and Raamah engaged in trade with you; they traded the best kinds of spices along with precious stones and gold for your products.

She makes linen garments ¹  and sells them, and supplies the merchants ²  with sashes.

The traders among the peoples hiss at you; you have become a horror, and will be no more.’”

The merchants who sold ¹  these things, who got rich from her, will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment. They will weep ²  and mourn,

besides what he collected from the merchants ¹  and traders. All the Arabian kings and the governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon.

After him Malkijah, one of the goldsmiths, worked as far as the house of the temple servants and the traders, opposite the Inspection Gate, ¹  and up to the room above the corner.

For all the nations ¹  have fallen ²  from the wine of her immoral passion, ³  and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have gotten rich from the power of her sensual behavior.” ⁴ 

Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, ¹  but you were not satisfied there either.

Solomon acquired his horses from Egypt ¹  and from Que; the king’s traders purchased them from Que.

Solomon acquired his horses from Egypt ¹  and from Que; the king’s traders purchased them from Que.