...18:16). The merchants are portrayed mourning over their cargo of luxury goods: "gold, silver, jewels and pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet,...cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls"...

...the earth weep and mourn ... since no one buys their cargo any more, cargo of gold, silver, jewels and pearls, fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet,...cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls....

...262 . . . cargo of gold, silver, jewels and pearls, fine linen, purple, sil\ and scarlet, all l(1nds of scented wood, all articles of ivory, all articles...iron and marble, cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, fran\incense, wine, oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that...

...earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo any more, cargo of gold, silver, jewels and pearls, fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet, all kinds of scented wood* (vv. 11-12). By extension it is a metaphor for something of supreme value.57 Again the New Testament...

...earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore, IJ cargo of gold, silver, jewels and pearls, fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet,...sheep, horses and chariots, slaves — and human lives. 14 "The fruit for which your soul longed has gone from you, and all your dainties and your splendor...

...earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo any more, 12cargo of gold, silver, jewels and pearls, fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet,...articles of costly wood, bronze, iron, and marble, 13cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep,...

...earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore, cargo of gold, silver, jewels and pearls, fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet,...sheep, horses and chariots, slaves — and human lives (18:11-13). The splendor that was once Babylon's is a past memory. The fruit for which your soul longed...

...According to the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), this cargo record consists of "gold, silver, jewels and pearls, fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet,...sheep, horses and chariots, slaves — and human lives" (18:12-13). What interests us about this inventory are the occupants of its climactic finale. Where...

...earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore, i;cargo of gold, silver, jewels and pearls, fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet,...sheep, horses and chariots, slaves and human lives. u"The fruit for which your soul longed has gone from you. and all your dainties and your splendor are...

...earth weep and mourn for her. since no one buys their cargo anymore. cargo of gold. silver. jewels and pearls. fine linen. purple. silk and scarlet....and sheep. horses and chariots. slaves — and human lives."NRSv The next group to join the funeral dirge are the merchants of the earth il8:l l-l6l. These...