Parallel Verses
Amplified
Who made the world like a wilderness
And overthrew its cities,
Who did not permit his prisoners to return home?’
New American Standard Bible
And overthrew its cities,
Who
King James Version
That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Holman Bible
who destroyed its cities
and would not release the prisoners to return home?”
International Standard Version
who made the world like a desert, who destroyed its cities, who would not open the jails for his prisoners?'
A Conservative Version
who made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it, who did not let loose his prisoners to their home?
American Standard Version
that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?
Bible in Basic English
Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.
Darby Translation
that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that dismissed not his prisoners homewards?
Julia Smith Translation
Setting the habitable globe as a desert, and destroying its cities: for his bound opening not the house.
King James 2000
That made the world like a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Lexham Expanded Bible
who made [the] world like the desert and destroyed its cities, [who] would not let his prisoners go home?'
Modern King James verseion
who made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; who did not open the house for his prisoners?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Is this he that made the world in a manner waste, and laid the cities to the ground, which let not his prisoners go home?"
NET Bible
Is this the one who made the world like a desert, who ruined its cities, and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?"'
New Heart English Bible
who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who did not release his prisoners to their home?"
The Emphasized Bible
Who made the world like a desert And its cities, brake down? Its prisoners, he loosed not. Bach one to his home.
Webster
That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
World English Bible
who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"
Youngs Literal Translation
He hath made the world as a wilderness, And his cities he hath broken down, Of his bound ones he opened not the house.
Themes
Babylon » Predictions respecting » Destruction of
Babylon » As a power, was » Cruel and destructive
Isaiah » Prophecies, reproofs, and exhortations of » The burden of babylon
Isaiah » Prophecies, reproofs, and exhortations of » Denunciation against the philistines
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 14:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Downfall Of The King Of Babylon
16
“Those who see you will gaze at you,
They will consider you, saying,
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
Who made the world like a wilderness
And overthrew its cities,
Who did not permit his prisoners to return home?’
“All the kings of the nations, all of them lie [dead] in glorious array,
Each one in his own sepulcher.
Cross References
Joel 2:3
Before them a fire devours,
And behind them a flame burns;
Before them the land is like the Garden of Eden,
But behind them a desolate wilderness;
And nothing at all escapes them.
Isaiah 45:13
“I have stirred up Cyrus and put him into action in righteousness [to accomplish My purpose]
And I will make all his ways smooth;
He will build My city and let My exiles go,
Without any payment or reward,” says the Lord of hosts.
2 Chronicles 28:8-15
And the sons of Israel led away captive 200,000 of their kinsmen [of Judah]—women, sons, and daughters—and they also took a great quantity of spoil from them and brought it to Samaria.
Ezra 1:2-4
“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The
Isaiah 13:19-22
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
Will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
Isaiah 58:6
“[Rather] is this not the fast which I choose,
To undo the bonds of wickedness,
To tear to pieces the ropes of the yoke,
To let the oppressed go free
And break apart every [enslaving] yoke?
Isaiah 64:10
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
Ezekiel 6:14
And I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land a more desolate waste than the wilderness toward Diblah [the Moabite city], throughout all the places where they live; and they will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.”’”
Zephaniah 2:13-14
And the Lord will stretch out His hand against the north
And destroy Assyria,
And He will make Nineveh a desolation [a wasteland],
Parched as the desert.