Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.

New American Standard Bible

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.

King James Version

And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

Holman Bible

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

International Standard Version

The desolate fields will be cultivated, replacing the former wasteland that everyone who passed by in times past had noticed.

A Conservative Version

And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

American Standard Version

And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.

Amplified

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.

Bible in Basic English

And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.

Julia Smith Translation

And the desolate land shall be worked instead of its being a desolation before the eyes of all passing by.

King James 2000

And the desolate land shall be tilled, instead of lying desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And the land that was desolate will be cultivated in {the very place that} it was desolate before [the] eyes of all of [the persons] crossing over.

Modern King James verseion

And the waste land shall be tilled, instead of being a ruin before all passing by.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The desolate land shall be builded again, which afore time lay waste in the sight of all them that went by.

NET Bible

The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

New Heart English Bible

The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

The Emphasized Bible

And the land that was made desolate shall be tilled, - Whereas it was a desolation, before the eyes of every passer-by;

Webster

And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

World English Bible

The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

Youngs Literal Translation

And the desolate land is tilled, Instead of which it was a desolation before the eyes of every passer by,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the desolate
שׁמם 
Shamem 
Usage: 89

ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

שׁממה שׁממה 
Sh@mamah 
Usage: 57

in the sight
עין 
`ayin 
Usage: 372

Verse Info

Context Readings

I Will Put My Spirit Within You

33 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day that I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities I will also cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded. 34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by. 35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.



Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:23-28

that the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury:

2 Chronicles 36:21

to fulfil the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath, to fulfil seventy years.

Jeremiah 25:9-11

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual wastes.

Ezekiel 6:14

And I will stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness of Diblath, in all their dwellings; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

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