Parallel Verses
King James Version
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
New American Standard Bible
And great destruction.
Holman Bible
a great destruction.
International Standard Version
The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction.
A Conservative Version
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
American Standard Version
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Amplified
“The noise of battle is in the land,
And [the noise of] great destruction.
Bible in Basic English
There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction.
Darby Translation
A sound of battle is in the land, and great destruction.
Julia Smith Translation
The voice of war in the land, and a great breaking.
King James 2000
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] sound of battle [is] in the land, and great destruction.
Modern King James verseion
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great ruin.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
There is gone about the land a cry of a slaughter and great murder, namely on this manner:
NET Bible
The noise of battle can be heard in the land of Babylonia. There is the sound of great destruction.
New Heart English Bible
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
The Emphasized Bible
The sound of battle is in the earth, - And a great destruction.
Webster
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
World English Bible
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Youngs Literal Translation
A noise of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 50:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee. 22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. 23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:19-21
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Jeremiah 51:54-56
A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
Isaiah 21:2-4
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.