Parallel Verses
Amplified
Elam took up the quiver
With the chariots, infantry and horsemen;
And Kir uncovered the shield.
New American Standard Bible
With the chariots,
And
King James Version
And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
Holman Bible
with chariots and horsemen,
and Kir
International Standard Version
Elam takes up the quiver with chariots and cavalry, while Kir unsheathes the shield.
A Conservative Version
And Elam bore the quiver, with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
American Standard Version
And Elam bare the quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
Bible in Basic English
And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.
Darby Translation
Elam beareth the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovereth the shield.
Julia Smith Translation
And Elam lifted up the quiver with the chariot of men, horsemen; and Kir made naked the shield.
King James 2000
And Elam bore the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And Elam lifted up [the] quiver, with chariots [of] men [and] cavalry. And Kir uncovered [the] shield.
Modern King James verseion
And Persia carried the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Elam bare the quiver in a chariot of footmen and of horsemen, and the city of Kir showed the shield open.
NET Bible
The Elamites picked up the quiver, and came with chariots and horsemen; the men of Kir prepared the shield.
New Heart English Bible
Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
The Emphasized Bible
Yea, Elam, beareth the quiver, With trams of men, and horsemen, - And, Kir, hath uncovered the shield.
Webster
And Elam bore the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
World English Bible
Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Elam hath borne a quiver, In a chariot of men -- horsemen, And Kir hath exposed a shield.
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 22:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oracle Against Jerusalem
5
For the Lord God of hosts has a day of panic and of tumult, of trampling, of confusion
In the Valley of Vision,
A [day of] breaking down walls
And a crying [for help] to the mountain.
Elam took up the quiver
With the chariots, infantry and horsemen;
And Kir uncovered the shield.
And it came to pass that your choicest valleys were full of chariots,
And the horsemen took their fixed positions [in an offensive array] at the gate [of Jerusalem].
Cross References
2 Kings 16:9
So the king of Assyria listened to him; and he went up against Damascus and captured it, and carried its people away into exile to Kir, and put Rezin [king of Aram] to death.
Isaiah 21:2
A harsh vision has been shown to me;
The treacherous one deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, Elam! Lay siege, Media!
All the groaning [caused by Babylon’s ruthless oppressions] I [the Lord] have brought to an end.
Amos 1:5
“I also will break the bar [of the gate] of Damascus,
And cut off and destroy the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven (Wickedness),
And the ruler who holds the scepter, from Beth-eden (Damascus);
And the people of Aram [conquered by the Assyrians] will go into exile to
Says the Lord.
Amos 9:7
“Are you [degenerate ones] not as the [despised] sons of Ethiopia to Me,
O sons of Israel?” says the Lord.
“Have I not brought up Israel from the land of Egypt,
And the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans (Syrians) from Kir?
Genesis 10:22
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram;
Isaiah 15:1
The [mournful, inspired] oracle (
Because in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.
Jeremiah 49:35-39
“Thus says the Lord of hosts,
‘Behold (listen carefully), I am going to break the bow of Elam,
The finest [weapon] of their strength.