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Bible in Basic English

And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;

New American Standard Bible

I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.

King James Version

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

Holman Bible

I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

International Standard Version

I'll lay your cities to waste and destroy your sanctuaries so I don't have to smell the scent of your soothing odors.

A Conservative Version

And I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.

American Standard Version

And I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.

Amplified

I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your sweet and soothing aromas [of offerings by fire].

Darby Translation

And I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries; and I will not smell your sweet odours.

Julia Smith Translation

And I gave your cities a desert, and I laid waste your holy places, and I will not smell upon the odor of your sweetness.

King James 2000

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the aroma of your sweet odors.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And I will lay your cities [in] ruins, and I will lay waste your sanctuaries; and I shall not smell your [sacrifices'] appeasing fragrance.

Modern King James verseion

And I will make your cities waste and cause your sanctuaries to be deserted. And I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And I will make your cities desolate, and bring your sanctuaries unto nought, and will not smell the savours of your sweet odours.

NET Bible

I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.

New Heart English Bible

I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

The Emphasized Bible

And I will give your cities unto desolation, And make your holy places dumb, - And will find no fragrance in your satisfying odour;

Webster

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.

World English Bible

I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

Youngs Literal Translation

and I have made your cities a waste, and have made desolate your sanctuaries, and I smell not at your sweet fragrances;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And I will make
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

and bring
שׁמם 
Shamem 
Usage: 89

מקּדשׁ מקדּשׁ 
Miqdash 
Usage: 75

and I will not smell
רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 11

the savour
ריח 
Reyach 
Usage: 58

References

Context Readings

Punishment For Disobedience

30 And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust. 31 And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes; 32 And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.


Cross References

Nehemiah 2:3

And said to the king, May the king be living for ever: is it not natural for my face to be sad, when the town, the place where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, has been made waste and its doorways burned with fire?

2 Kings 25:4-10

So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

Isaiah 1:11-14

What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.

Lamentations 1:10

The hand of her hater is stretched out over all her desired things; for she has seen that the nations have come into her holy place, about whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.

Lamentations 2:7

The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.

Ezekiel 9:6

Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.

Amos 5:21-23

Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.

Hebrews 10:26

For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,

Genesis 8:21

And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

2 Chronicles 36:19

And the house of God was burned and the wall of Jerusalem broken down; all its great houses were burned with fire and all its beautiful vessels given up to destruction.

Nehemiah 2:17

Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.

Psalm 74:3-8

Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;

Isaiah 1:7

Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

Isaiah 24:10-12

The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.

Isaiah 66:3

He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;

Jeremiah 9:11

And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.

Jeremiah 22:5

But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste.

Jeremiah 26:6

Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this town a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Jeremiah 26:9

Why have you said in the name of the Lord, This house will be like Shiloh, and this land a waste with no one living in it? And all the people had come together to Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 52:13

And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire:

Lamentations 1:1

See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!

Ezekiel 6:6

In all your living-places the towns will become broken walls, and the high places made waste; so that your altars may be broken down and made waste, and your images broken and ended, and so that your sun-images may be cut down and your works rubbed out.

Ezekiel 21:7

And when they say to you, Why are you making sounds of grief? then say, Because of the news, for it is coming: and every heart will become soft, and all hands will be feeble, and every spirit will be burning low, and all knees will be turned to water: see, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 21:15

In order that hearts may become soft, and the number of those who are falling may be increased, I have sent death by the sword against all their doors: you are made like a flame, you are polished for death.

Ezekiel 24:21

Say to the people of Israel, The Lord has said, See, I will make my holy place unclean, the pride of your strength, the pleasure of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and daughters, who did not come with you here, will be put to the sword.

Micah 3:12

For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

Matthew 24:1-2

And Jesus went out of the Temple, and on the way his disciples came to him, pointing out the buildings of the Temple.

Luke 21:5-6

And some were talking about the Temple, how it was made fair with beautiful stones and with offerings, but he said,

Luke 21:24

And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.

Acts 6:14

For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses.

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