Parallel Verses
Amplified
The Lord has removed [His] people far away,
And there are many deserted places in the midst of the land.
New American Standard Bible
And the
King James Version
And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
Holman Bible
leaving great emptiness in the land.
International Standard Version
Until the LORD removes people far away, and there are many empty places in the middle of the land.
A Conservative Version
and LORD has removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land.
American Standard Version
and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land.
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.
Darby Translation
and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the solitude be great in the midst of the land.
Julia Smith Translation
And Jehovah put man far away, and much forsaking in the midst of the land.
King James 2000
And the LORD has removed men far away, and there are many forsaken places in the midst of the land.
Lexham Expanded Bible
and Yahweh sends the people far away, and the abandonment is great in the midst of the land.
Modern King James verseion
and until Jehovah has moved men far away, and the desolation in the midst of the land is great.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For the LORD shall take the men far away, so that the land shall lie waste.
NET Bible
and the Lord has sent the people off to a distant place, and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned.
New Heart English Bible
And the LORD has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
The Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh have far removed men, - And great! be the abandonment in the midst of the land.
Webster
And the LORD shall have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
World English Bible
And Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Jehovah hath put man far off, And great is the forsaken part in the heart of the land.
Interlinear
Rab
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 6:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Isaiah's Commission
11
Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered,
And houses are without people
And the land is utterly desolate,
The Lord has removed [His] people far away,
And there are many deserted places in the midst of the land.
“And though a tenth [of the people] remain in the land,
It will again be subject to destruction [consumed and burned],
Like a massive terebinth tree or like an oak
Whose stump remains when it is chopped down.
The holy seed [the elect remnant] is its stump [the substance of Israel].”
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:29
Every city runs away at the sound of the horsemen and archers.
They go into the thickets and climb among the rocks;
Every city is deserted,
And no man lives in them.
Deuteronomy 28:64
And the Lord will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other; and there you will [be forced to] serve other gods, [lifeless gods of] wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
2 Kings 25:11
Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard deported [into exile] the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had joined the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
2 Kings 25:21
Then the king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath [north of Damascus]. So Judah was taken into exile from its land.
Isaiah 26:15
You have increased the nation, O Lord;
You have increased the nation, You are glorified;
You have extended all the borders of the land.
Jeremiah 12:7
“I have abandoned My house,
I have given up My [precious] inheritance (Judah);
I have given the [dearly] beloved of My life
Into the hands of her enemies.
Jeremiah 15:4
I will make them an object of horror to all nations of the earth because of Manasseh [the despicable] son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for the [evil and detestable] things which he did in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 52:28-30
This is the number of people whom Nebuchadnezzar took captive and exiled: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
Lamentations 5:20
Why do You forget us forever?
Why do You forsake us so long?
Romans 11:1-2
I say then, has God rejected and disowned His people? Certainly not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans 11:15
For if their [present] rejection [of salvation] is for the reconciliation of the world [to God], what will their acceptance [of salvation] be but [nothing less than] life from the dead?