When he had assembled them, as well as the workers engaged in this type of business, he said,“ Men, you know that our prosperity is derived from this business.

他聚集他们和同行的工人，说：“众位，你们知道我们是倚靠这生意发财。

他聚集他们和同行的工人，说：“诸位，你们知道我们是倚靠这生意发财的。

他聚集他们和同行的工人，说：“诸位，你们知道我们是倚靠这生意发财的。

他召集了工匠和同行的人，说：“各位都知道我们靠这一行发财，

他把这些人和同业的工人聚集起来，说：“各位，你们知道，我们是靠这生意赚钱的。

迪米特斯召集了他们，以及周围同行的工人，说：“各位，你们知道，我们是由这生意发财的。

他聚集他們和同行的工人，說：「眾位，你們知道我們是倚靠這生意發財。

他聚集他們和同行的工人，說：「諸位，你們知道我們是倚靠這生意發財的。

他聚集他們和同行的工人，說：「諸位，你們知道我們是倚靠這生意發財的。

他召集了工匠和同行的人，說：「各位都知道我們靠這一行發財，

他把這些人和同業的工人聚集起來，說：“各位，你們知道，我們是靠這生意賺錢的。

他集合了他們、以及四圍這種手藝的工人，說：『同人們，你們知道我們的財是由這個生意而發的。

迪米特斯召集了他們，以及周圍同行的工人，說：「各位，你們知道，我們是由這生意發財的。

乃集諸工、與之同業者曰、諸君、我儕以此業獲利、

底米丟集其徒、與類其業者、曰、爾眾知我儕藉此業獲利、

乃集其人、及凡業此藝者、曰、諸公、爾知我儕賴此業獲利、

至是、集其徒與同業曰：『諸君皆知吾人致富、端賴此藝、

He called them together, along with the workers in related trades, and said:“ You know, my friends, that we receive a good income from this business.

One day he called them together. He also called others who were in the same kind of business.“ My friends,” he said,“ you know that we make good money from our work.

These he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said,“ Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth.

He called them together, along with others employed in similar trades, and addressed them as follows:“ Gentlemen, you know that our wealth comes from this business.

he gathered these men together with the workmen of similar trades, and said,“ Men, you know that our prosperity depends upon this business.

He called them together with the workers of similar occupation, and said:“ Men, you know that we have our prosperity by this trade.

whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this business we have our wealth.

When he had assembled them, as well as the workers engaged in this type of business, he said:“ Men, you know that our prosperity is derived from this business.

Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.

He gathered these together, along with the workmen in similar trades, and said,“ Men, you know that our prosperity comes from this business.

whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said,“ Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.

When her owners realized that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.

They feed on the sin of my people; they have an appetite for their iniquity.

The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargo any longer—cargo of gold, silver, jewels, and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; all kinds of fragrant wood products; objects of ivory; objects of expensive wood, brass, iron, and marble;cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; wine, olive oil, fine flour, and grain; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and slaves— human lives.The fruit you craved has left you. All your splendid and glamorous things are gone; they will never find them again.The merchants of these things, who became rich from her, will stand far off in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning,saying, Woe, woe, the great city, dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, adorned with gold, jewels, and pearls;for in a single hour such fabulous wealth was destroyed! And every shipmaster, seafarer, the sailors, and all who do business by sea, stood far offas they watched the smoke from her burning and kept crying out,“ Who was like the great city?”They threw dust on their heads and kept crying out, weeping, and mourning, Woe, woe, the great city, where all those who have ships on the sea became rich from her wealth; for in a single hour she was destroyed.

A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.But Ephraim thinks,“ How rich I have become; I made it all myself. In all my earnings, no one can find any iniquity in me that I can be punished for!”

For all the nations have drunk the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath. The kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from her sensuality and excess.

They will exploit you in their greed with made-up stories. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.