Parallel Verses

King James Version

Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

New American Standard Bible

Your holy cities have become a wilderness,
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

Holman Bible

Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

International Standard Version

Your holy cities have become a desert; Zion has become like a desert, Jerusalem a desolation.

A Conservative Version

Thy holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

American Standard Version

Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Amplified


Your holy cities have become a wilderness,
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

Bible in Basic English

Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.

Darby Translation

Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Julia Smith Translation

The cities of thy holy place were desert; Zion was a desert., Jerusalem a desolation.

King James 2000

Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{Your holy cities} have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Modern King James verseion

Your holy cities are a wilderness; Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem is a ruin.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The cities of thy Sanctuary lie waste: Zion is a wilderness, and Jerusalem a desert.

NET Bible

Your chosen cities have become a desert; Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.

New Heart English Bible

Your holy cities have become like a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

The Emphasized Bible

Thy holy cities, have become a wilderness, - Zion, a wilderness, hath become, Jerusalem, a desolation!

Webster

Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

World English Bible

Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thy holy cities have been a wilderness, Zion a wilderness hath been, Jerusalem a desolation.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
קדשׁ 
Qodesh 
Usage: 470

עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

מדבּר 
Midbar 
Usage: 271

ציּון 
Tsiyown 
Usage: 154

is a wilderness
מדבּר 
Midbar 
Usage: 271

ירוּשׁלים ירוּשׁלם 
Y@ruwshalaim 
Usage: 642

References

Context Readings

Prayer For Mercy

9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. 10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.



Cross References

Isaiah 1:7

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

2 Kings 25:9

And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.

2 Chronicles 36:19-21

And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

Psalm 79:1-7

{A Psalm of Asaph.} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

Lamentations 1:1-4

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

Lamentations 2:4-8

He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

Lamentations 5:18

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

Daniel 9:26-27

And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

Daniel 12:7

And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

Micah 3:12

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

Luke 21:21

Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.

Luke 21:24

And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

Revelation 11:1-2

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

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