Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak soothingly to her.

New American Standard Bible

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
Bring her into the wilderness
And speak kindly to her.

King James Version

Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

Holman Bible

Therefore, I am going to persuade her,
lead her to the wilderness,
and speak tenderly to her.

International Standard Version

"Therefore, look! I will now allure her. I will make her go out to the wilderness, and will speak to her heart.

American Standard Version

Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

Amplified


“Therefore, behold, I will allure Israel
And bring her into the wilderness,
And I will speak tenderly to her [to reconcile her to Me].

Bible in Basic English

For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.

Darby Translation

Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak to her heart.

Julia Smith Translation

For this, behold, I entice her, and I caused her to go into the desert, and I spake to her heart.

King James 2000

Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Therefore, Look! I [am] going to allure her and bring her [into] the desert, and {I will speak tenderly to her}.

Modern King James verseion

Therefore, behold, I will lure her and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Wherefore behold: I will call her again, bring her into a wilderness, and speak friendly unto her.

NET Bible

However, in the future I will allure her; I will lead her back into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

New Heart English Bible

"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

The Emphasized Bible

Therefore, lo! I, am going to persuade her, and, though I conduct her forth into wilderness, yet will I speak unto her heart.

Webster

Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her.

World English Bible

"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

Youngs Literal Translation

Therefore, lo, I am enticing her, And have caused her to go to the wilderness, And I have spoken unto her heart,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּתה 
Pathah 
Usage: 28

her, and bring
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

מדבּר 
Midbar 
Usage: 271

and speak
דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1142

Context Readings

Israel's Adultery Forgiven

13 And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, to which she burned incense when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, says LORD. 14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak soothingly to her. 15 And I will give her her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope. And she shall make answer there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.



Cross References

Ezekiel 20:35-36

and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples. And there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

Genesis 34:3

And his soul clung to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke kindly to the damsel.

Judges 19:3

And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father's house, and when the father of the damsel saw him, he

Song of Songs 1:4

Draw me, we will run after thee. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will be glad and rejoice in thee. We will make mention of thy love more than of wine. Rightly do they love thee.

Isaiah 30:18

And therefore LORD will wait, that he may be gracious to you. And therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you. For LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Isaiah 35:3-4

Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

Isaiah 40:1-2

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, says your God.

Isaiah 49:13-26

Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth, and break forth into singing, O mountains. For LORD has comforted his people, and will have compassion upon his afflicted.

Isaiah 51:3-23

For LORD has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of LORD. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Jeremiah 2:2

Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says LORD, I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, how thou went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Jeremiah 16:14

Therefore, behold, the days come, says LORD, that it shall no more be said, As LORD lives who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,

Jeremiah 30:18-22

Thus says LORD: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling-places. And the city shall be built upon its own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited after its own manner.

Jeremiah 31:1-37

At that time, says LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

Jeremiah 32:36-41

And now therefore thus says LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, of which ye say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence:

Jeremiah 33:6-26

Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them. And I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

Ezekiel 20:10

So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

Ezekiel 34:22-31

therefore I will save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.

Ezekiel 36:8-15

But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel, for they are at hand to come.

Ezekiel 37:11-28

Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are clean cut off.

Ezekiel 39:25-29

Therefore thus says lord LORD: Now I will bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel. And I will be jealous for my holy name.

Hosea 2:3

lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

Amos 9:11-15

In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof. And I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old,

Micah 7:14-20

Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, which dwell solitarily in the forest in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

Zephaniah 3:9-20

For then I will turn to the peoples of a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of LORD, to serve him with one consent.

Zechariah 1:12-17

Then the agent of LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long will thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou have had indignation these seventy years?

Zechariah 8:19-23

Thus says LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth [month], and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah, joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth

John 6:44

No man can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

John 12:32

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to myself.

Romans 11:26-27

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written, The man who delivers will come from Zion, and will turn away impiety from Jacob.

Revelation 12:6

And the woman fled into the wilderness where she has a place there prepared by God, so that they may nourish her there a thousand two hundred sixty days.

Revelation 12:14

And two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she might fly into the wilderness to her place. So that she might be nourished there for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

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