Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

I'll make the land so desolate that your enemies who live in it will be astonished."

New American Standard Bible

I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it.

King James Version

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

Holman Bible

I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it.

A Conservative Version

And I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

American Standard Version

And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

Amplified

I will make the land desolate, and your enemies who settle in it will be appalled at it.

Bible in Basic English

And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.

Darby Translation

And I will bring the land into desolation; that your enemies who dwell there in may be astonished at it.

Julia Smith Translation

And I laid the land waste, and your enemies were astonished at it, they dwelling upon it

King James 2000

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies who dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And I myself will lay waste the land, and your enemies who are living in it shall be appalled over it.

Modern King James verseion

And I will turn the land into wasteland. And your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"'And I will bring the land unto a wilderness: so that your enemies which dwell therein shall wonder at it.

NET Bible

I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.

New Heart English Bible

I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

The Emphasized Bible

And, I, will make the land dumb, And your foes that dwell therein shall regard it with dumb amazement:

Webster

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

World English Bible

I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

Youngs Literal Translation

and I have made desolate the land, and your enemies, who are dwelling in it, have been astonished at it.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And I will bring
שׁמם 
Shamem 
Usage: 89

the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

אויב איב 
'oyeb 
Usage: 272

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

References

Verse Info

Context Readings

Punishment For Disobedience

31 I'll lay your cities to waste and destroy your sanctuaries so I don't have to smell the scent of your soothing odors. 32 I'll make the land so desolate that your enemies who live in it will be astonished." 33 "I'll scatter you among the nations and draw the sword after you so that your land becomes desolate and your towns become ruins.


Cross References

Jeremiah 9:11

"I'll make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a refuge for jackals. I'll make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants."

Jeremiah 18:16

They make their land into a desolate place, an object of lasting scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads.

Jeremiah 19:8

I'll make this city into a desolate place and an object of scorn. All who pass by it will be astonished and will scoff because of all its wounds.

Jeremiah 25:11

This entire land will be a desolation and a waste, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

Deuteronomy 28:37

You'll become a desolation and a proverb, and you'll be mocked among the people where the LORD will drive you."

1 Kings 9:8

"This Temple will become a pile of ruins. Everyone who passes by it will be so astounded that they will ask, "Why did the LORD do this to this land and to this Temple?'

Jeremiah 25:18

Jerusalem, the cities of Judah, its kings and officials to make them into a ruin, an object of horror and scorn, and a curse, as it is this day;

Ezekiel 5:15

As a result, Jerusalem will become an insult, an object of taunt, an example of chastisement, and a useless waste to all the nations that surround you when I carry out my sentence against you in my anger, my burning rage, and my burning rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken it.

Deuteronomy 29:23-28

The whole land will be covered with salt pits and burning sulfur, with nothing planted, nothing sprouting, and producing no vegetation overthrown like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, when the LORD overthrew them in his raging fury.

Isaiah 1:7-8

"Your country lies desolate; your cities have been incinerated. Before your very eyes, foreigners are devouring your land they've brought devastation on it, while the land is overthrown by foreigners.

Isaiah 5:6

I'll make it a wasteland, and it won't be pruned or cultivated. Instead, briers and thorns will grow up. I'll also issue commands to the clouds, that they drop no rain upon it."

Isaiah 5:9

The LORD of the Heavenly Armies has declared this so I could hear it: "Surely many houses will become desolate, great and beautiful houses, without occupants.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I asked, "For how long, LORD?" He replied: "Until cities lie waste, without inhabitants, and houses without people; and the land becomes utterly desolate.

Isaiah 24:1

"Watch out! The LORD is about to depopulate the land and devastate it; he will turn it upside down and scatter its inhabitants.

Isaiah 32:13-14

and over the land of my people overgrown with thorns and briers yes, over all the houses of merriment and over this city of revelry.

Isaiah 64:10

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

Jeremiah 25:38

Like a lion, he has left his den. Indeed, their land has become a waste because of the anger of the oppressor and because of the LORD's fierce anger."

Jeremiah 44:2

"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "You have seen the disaster that I brought on Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah. Look, they're in ruins today, with no one living in them,

Jeremiah 44:22

The LORD could no longer bear it because of your evil deeds and the repulsive things that you did. So your land has become a ruin and an object of horror and ridicule without an inhabitant, as is the case today.

Lamentations 4:12

None of the kings of the earth would have believed, nor the world's inhabitants, that the adversary and the enemy could have breached the gates of Jerusalem.

Lamentations 5:18

Because Mount Zion is desolate; foxes roam around it.

Ezekiel 33:28-29

Then I'll turn the land into a desolate ruin and her arrogant strength will come to an abrupt end. The mountains of Israel will become so desolate that no one will be able to travel over them."

Daniel 9:2

in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, noted in the Scripture the total years that were assigned by the message from the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem: 70 years.

Daniel 9:18

Turn your ear and listen, O God. Open your eyes and look at our desolation and at the city that is called by your name. We're not presenting our requests before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great compassion.

Habakkuk 3:17

Even though the fig tree does not blossom, and there are no grapes on the vines; even if the olive harvest fails, and the fields produce nothing edible; even if the flock is snatched from the sheepfold, and there is no herd in the stalls

Luke 21:20

"When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then understand that its devastation is approaching.

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