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Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.
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Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.
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You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.
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he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried it to a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
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For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."
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The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more;
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merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;
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and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people's bodies and souls.
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The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.
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The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning;
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saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!
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For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,
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and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, 'What is like the great city?'
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They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!' For in one hour is she made desolate.
Dans un pays de Canaan. Ce terme, par une singulière ironie, désigne ici Babylone. Il est expliqué par l'expression parallèle : une ville de marchands. Les Cananéens paraissent avoir eu le génie du négoce. Les Phéniciens, qui appartenaient à cette race, faisaient le commerce, et le passage Proverbes 31.24, prouve que le terme kenaani désignait le petit marchand. La Babylonie où Nébucadnestar avait conduit Jehojachin prisonnier pouvait donc bien (voir plus bas) être appelée une terre de Canaan, mais une Canaan de punition, en opposition à la Canaan bénie assurée à David et à sa race. L'emploi de ces termes de Canaan et de Liban appartient au caractère énigmatique de ce discours.
Dans une ville de marchands. Ces mots servent à expliquer le mystère du mot Canaan. Babylone était alors en vertu de sa position géographique (entre l'Arménie au nord et l'Arabie au sud, l'Inde et la Perse à l'est, l'Asie occidentale, l'Afrique et l'Europe à l'ouest), le grand centre de commerce international pour le monde entier.