Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Thistles had come up everywhere,
weeds covered the ground,
and the stone wall was ruined.

New American Standard Bible

And behold, it was completely overgrown with thistles;
Its surface was covered with nettles,
And its stone wall was broken down.

King James Version

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

International Standard Version

There it was, overgrown with thistles, the ground covered with thorns, its stone wall collapsed.

A Conservative Version

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns. The face of it was covered with nettles, and the stone wall of it was broken down.

American Standard Version

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.

Amplified


And, behold, it was all overgrown with thorns,
And nettles were covering its surface,
And its stone wall was broken down.

Bible in Basic English

And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

Darby Translation

and lo, it was all grown over with thistles, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and its stone wall was broken down.

Julia Smith Translation

And behold, it came up all of it with thorns; brambles covered its face, and the wall of its stones was overthrown.

King James 2000

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and weeds had covered its face, and its stone wall was broken down.

Lexham Expanded Bible

and behold, it was overgrown--all of it was covered [with] thorns, its surface with nettles, and {its stone wall} was broken down.

Modern King James verseion

and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken down.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And lo, it was all covered with nettles, and stood full of thistles, and the stone wall was broken down.

NET Bible

I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.

New Heart English Bible

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

The Emphasized Bible

And lo! there had come up all over it - thorns, there had covered the face thereof - thistles, and, the stone fence thereof, had been thrown down.

Webster

And lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken down.

World English Bible

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

Youngs Literal Translation

And lo, it hath gone up -- all of it -- thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And, lo, it was all grown over
עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

with thorns
קמּשׁון 
Qimmashown 
Usage: 1

and nettles
חרל חרוּל 
Charuwl 
Usage: 3

כּסה 
Kacah 
Usage: 152

the face
פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

גּדר 
Geder 
Usage: 2

Context Readings

More Sayings Of The Wise

30 I went by the field of a slacker
and by the vineyard of a man lacking sense.
31 Thistles had come up everywhere,
weeds covered the ground,
and the stone wall was ruined.
32 I saw, and took it to heart;
I looked, and received instruction:



Cross References

Genesis 3:17-19

And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.

Job 31:40

then let thorns grow instead of wheat
and stinkweed instead of barley.


The words of Job are concluded.

Proverbs 19:23

The fear of the Lord leads to life;
one will sleep at night without danger.

Proverbs 20:4

The slacker does not plow during planting season;
at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.

Proverbs 22:13

The slacker says, “There’s a lion outside!
I’ll be killed in the public square!”

Proverbs 23:21

For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor,
and grogginess will clothe them in rags.

Ecclesiastes 10:18

Because of laziness the roof caves in,
and because of negligent hands the house leaks.

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will tell you
what I am about to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge,
and it will be consumed;
I will tear down its wall,
and it will be trampled.

Jeremiah 4:3

For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:

Break up the unplowed ground;
do not sow among the thorns.

Matthew 13:7

Others fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them.

Matthew 13:22

Now the one sown among the thorns—this is one who hears the word, but the worries of this age and the seduction of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Hebrews 6:8

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and will be burned at the end.

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