Parallel Verses
Amplified
My mind reels, horror overwhelms me;
The twilight I longed for has been
New American Standard Bible
The twilight I longed for has been
King James Version
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
Holman Bible
horror terrifies me.
He has turned my last glimmer of hope
into sheer terror.
International Standard Version
And as for my heart, horror has terrified me; the twilight I longed for has started to make me tremble.
A Conservative Version
My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
American Standard Version
My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.
Bible in Basic English
My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.
Darby Translation
My heart panteth, horror affrighteth me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into trembling unto me.
Julia Smith Translation
My heart wandered; trembling made me afraid: the evening twilight of my desire he put to me for fear.
King James 2000
My heart panted, fearfulness appalled me: the night of my pleasure has he turned into fear unto me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My {mind} staggers; fear terrifies me; the twilight {I desired} {brought} me fear.
Modern King James verseion
My heart wanders, terror overwhelms me; He has turned the twilight of my pleasure into trembling.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My heart panted, I trembled for fear. The night of my voluptuousness hath he turned against me into fear.
NET Bible
My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror.
New Heart English Bible
My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
The Emphasized Bible
My heart fluttereth, A horror, terrifieth me, - My twilight of pleasure, hath he turned for me into a time of trembling.
Webster
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear to me.
World English Bible
My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
Youngs Literal Translation
Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,
Themes
Babylon » Predictions respecting » Destruction of
Isaiah » Prophecies, reproofs, and exhortations of » Denunciations against babylon
Topics
Interlinear
Ta`ah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 21:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Fall Of Babylon
3
Therefore [continues Isaiah] my loins are filled with anguish;
Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in childbirth;
I am so bent and bewildered that I cannot hear, I am so terrified that I cannot see.
My mind reels, horror overwhelms me;
The twilight I longed for has been
They set the table [for the doomed banquet], they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink;
“Rise up, captains [of Belshazzar’s court], oil your shields [for battle, for your enemy is at the gates]!”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:67
In the morning you will say, ‘I wish it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’—because of the dread in your heart with which you tremble, and because of the sight of your eyes which you will see.
1 Samuel 25:36-38
Then Abigail came to Nabal, and he was holding a feast in his house [for the shearers], like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s
2 Samuel 13:28-29
Now Absalom commanded his servants, “Notice carefully, when Amnon’s heart is joyous with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not be afraid; have I not commanded you myself [and in doing so have I not taken full responsibility for his death]? Be courageous and brave.”
Esther 5:12
Haman also said, “Even Queen Esther let no one but me come with the king to the banquet she had prepared; and tomorrow also I am invited by her [together] with the king.
Esther 7:6-10
Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy is Haman, this evil man.” Then Haman became terrified before the king and queen.
Job 21:11-13
“They send forth their little ones like a flock,
And their children skip about.
Isaiah 5:11-14
Woe (judgment is coming) to those who rise early in the morning to pursue intoxicating drink,
Who stay up late in the night till wine inflames them!
Jeremiah 51:39
“When they are
And make them drunk, that they may rejoice
And may sleep a perpetual sleep
And not wake up,” declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 51:57
“I will make her princes and her wise men drunk,
Her governors and her commanders and her mighty warriors;
They will sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up,”
Says the King—the Lord of hosts is His name.
Daniel 5:1
Belshazzar the king [who was a descendant of Nebuchadnezzar] gave a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking his wine in the presence of the thousand [guests].
Daniel 5:5
Suddenly the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and began writing opposite the lampstand on [a well-lit area of] the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, and the king saw the part of the hand that did the writing.
Daniel 5:30
During that same
Nahum 1:10
Like tangled thorn branches [gathered for fuel],
And like those drowned in drunkenness,
Like stubble completely withered and dry [in the day of the Lord’s wrath].
Luke 21:34-36