Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
While you yourself were not aware;
You have been found and also seized
Because you have engaged in
King James Version
I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.
Holman Bible
but you did not even know it.
You were found and captured
because you fought against the Lord.
International Standard Version
I'll set a trap for you, and you will be caught, Babylon, but you don't realize it. You will be found and also seized, because you challenged the LORD!
A Conservative Version
I have laid a snare for thee, and thou are also taken, O Babylon, and thou were not aware. Thou are found, and also caught, because thou have striven against LORD.
American Standard Version
I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against Jehovah.
Amplified
“I set a trap for you and you also were caught, O Babylon,
And you did not know it;
You have been found and also seized
Because you have struggled against the Lord.”
Bible in Basic English
I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord.
Darby Translation
I have laid a snare for thee, and thou, Babylon, art also taken, and thou wast not aware; thou art found, and also caught, for thou hast contended with Jehovah.
Julia Smith Translation
I laid snares for thee and also thou wert taken, O Babel, and thou knewest not: thou wert found and thou wert also taken, for thou didst contend against Jehovah.
King James 2000
I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, O Babylon, and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have contended against the LORD.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I laid a bird snare for you, and you were caught, Babylon. But you yourself [did] not know. You were discovered and seized, because with Yahweh you measured yourself.
Modern King James verseion
I have laid a trap for you, and you are also captured, O Babylon, and you did not know. You were found and also caught, because you have fought against Jehovah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I myself have laid wait for thee, and thou art taken. Unawares art thou trapped and snared. For why, thou hast provoked the LORD unto anger:
NET Bible
I set a trap for you, Babylon; you were caught before you knew it. You fought against me. So you were found and captured.
New Heart English Bible
I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against the LORD.
The Emphasized Bible
I laid a snare for thee yea and thou wast captured O Babylon, when, thou wast not aware, - Thou wast found out yea and taken, For with Yahweh, hadst thou contended.
Webster
I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.
World English Bible
I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.
Youngs Literal Translation
I have laid a snare for thee, And also -- thou art captured, O Babylon, And thou -- thou hast known, Thou hast been found, and also art caught, For against Jehovah thou hast stirred thyself up.
Interlinear
Lakad
Yada`
Matsa'
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 50:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
23
Has been cut off and broken!
How Babylon has become
An object of horror among the nations!
While you yourself were not aware;
You have been found and also seized
Because you have engaged in
And has brought forth the
For it is a
In the land of the Chaldeans.
Cross References
Job 9:4
Who has
Daniel 5:30-31
That same night
Job 40:2
Let him who
Job 40:9
And can you
Exodus 10:3
Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to
Ecclesiastes 9:12
Moreover, man does not
Isaiah 13:11
And the
I will also put an end to the
And abase the
Isaiah 21:3-5
Pains have seized me like the pains of a
I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.
Isaiah 45:9
An earthenware vessel
Will the
Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’?
Jeremiah 51:8
Perhaps she may be healed.
Jeremiah 51:31-39
And one
To tell the king of Babylon
That his city has been captured from end to end;
Jeremiah 51:57
Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men,
That they may sleep a
2 Thessalonians 2:4
who opposes and exalts himself above
Revelation 18:7-8