Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

The little one doth become a chief, And the small one a mighty nation, I, Jehovah, in its own time do hasten it!

New American Standard Bible

“The smallest one will become a clan,
And the least one a mighty nation.
I, the Lord, will hasten it in its time.”

King James Version

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.

Holman Bible

The least will become a thousand,
the smallest a mighty nation.
I am Yahweh;
I will accomplish it quickly in its time.

International Standard Version

The least of them will become a thousand, and the smallest one a mighty nation. "I am the LORD; When the time is right, I will do this swiftly."

A Conservative Version

The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, LORD, will hasten it in its time.

American Standard Version

The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Jehovah, will hasten it in its time.

Amplified


“The smallest one will become a thousand (a clan),
And the least one a mighty nation.
I, the Lord, will quicken it in its [appointed] time.”

Bible in Basic English

The smallest of their families will become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I, the Lord, will make it come quickly in its time.

Darby Translation

The little one shall become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation: I, Jehovah, will hasten it in its time.

Julia Smith Translation

The little one shall be for a thousand, and the small for a strong nation: I Jehovah will hasten it in its time.

King James 2000

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in its time.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The small [one] shall become tribe, and the smallest one a mighty nation. I [am] Yahweh; I will hasten it in its time."

Modern King James verseion

A little one will become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I Jehovah will hasten it in its time.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The youngest and least shall grow into a thousand, and the simplest into a strong people. I the LORD shall shortly bring this thing to pass in his time.

NET Bible

The least of you will multiply into a thousand; the smallest of you will become a large nation. When the right time comes, I the Lord will quickly do this!"

New Heart English Bible

The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, the LORD, will hasten it in its time."

The Emphasized Bible

The little one, shall become a thousand, and the small one, a mighty nation: I - Yahweh, in its own season, will hasten it.

Webster

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in its time.

World English Bible

The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Yahweh, will hasten it in its time."

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
קטן קטן 
Qatan 
Usage: 101

אלף 
'eleph 
Usage: 504

and a small one
צעור צעירo 
Tsa`iyr 
Usage: 22

a strong
עצם עצוּם 
`atsuwm 
Usage: 31

גּי גּוי 
Gowy 
Usage: 558

I the Lord

Usage: 0

will hasten
חוּשׁ 
Chuwsh 
Usage: 19

References

Context Readings

Zion Glorified

21 And thy people are all of them righteous, To the age they possess the earth, A branch of My planting, A work of My hands, to be beautified. 22 The little one doth become a chief, And the small one a mighty nation, I, Jehovah, in its own time do hasten it!


Cross References

Habakkuk 2:3

For yet the vision is for a season, And it breatheth for the end, and doth not lie, If it tarry, wait for it, For surely it cometh, it is not late.

Isaiah 5:19

Who are saying, 'Let Him hurry, Let Him hasten His work, that we may see, And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel Draw near and come, and we know.'

Isaiah 66:8

Who hath heard anything like this? Who hath seen anything like these? Is earth caused to bring forth in one day? Born is a nation at once? For she hath been pained, Zion also hath borne her sons.

Daniel 2:35

then broken small together have been the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, and they have been as chaff from the summer threshing-floor, and carried them away hath the wind, and no place hath been found for them: and the stone that smote the image hath become a great mountain, and hath filled all the land.

Daniel 2:44

And in the days of these kings raise up doth the God of the heavens a kingdom that is not destroyed -- to the age, and its kingdom to another people is not left: it beateth small and endeth all these kingdoms, and it standeth to the age.

Matthew 13:31-32

Another simile he set before them, saying: 'The reign of the heavens is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did sow in his field,

Luke 18:7

and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night -- bearing long in regard to them?

Acts 2:41

then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,

Acts 5:14

(and the more were believers added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,)

Hebrews 10:36

for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

2 Peter 3:8

And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;

Revelation 7:9

After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,

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