Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

For men are ashamed because of the oaks That ye have desired, And ye are confounded because of the gardens That ye have chosen.

New American Standard Bible

Surely you will be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired,
And you will be embarrassed at the gardens which you have chosen.

King James Version

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

Holman Bible

Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees
you desired,
and you will be embarrassed because of the gardens
you have chosen.

International Standard Version

They'll be ashamed of the oak trees that you desired; and you'll blush because of the gardens that you have chosen.

A Conservative Version

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

American Standard Version

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

Amplified


For you will be ashamed [of the degradation] of the oaks in which you took [idolatrous] pleasure,
And you will be ashamed of the gardens [of passion] which you have chosen [for pagan worship].

Bible in Basic English

For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

Darby Translation

For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths that ye have desired, and ye shall blush for the gardens that ye have chosen.

Julia Smith Translation

For they shall be ashamed of their mighty ones which ye desired, and ye shall blush for the gardens which ye chose.

King James 2000

For you shall be ashamed of the sacred oaks which you have desired, and you shall be embarrassed for the gardens that you have chosen.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For you will be ashamed of [the] oaks [in] which you delighted, and you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen.

Modern King James verseion

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be ashamed for the gardens which you have chosen.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For they shall be ashamed of the gods that you longed for. And you shall be put to shame for the idols and grove gardens that ye have chosen.

NET Bible

Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you find so desirable; you will be embarrassed because of the sacred orchards where you choose to worship.

New Heart English Bible

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

The Emphasized Bible

For they shall turn pale on account of the oaks which ye desired, - And ye shall blush on account of the gardens which ye had chosen;

Webster

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

World English Bible

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּוּשׁ 
Buwsh 
Usage: 119

of the oaks
איל 
'ayil 
Usage: 100

חמד 
Chamad 
Usage: 30

and ye shall be confounded
חפר 
Chapher 
Usage: 17

for the gardens
גּנּה 
Gannah 
Usage: 12

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Oak

Smith

Watsons

Oak

Context Readings

Purification Of Jerusalem

28 And the destruction of transgressors and sinners is together, And those forsaking Jehovah are consumed. 29 For men are ashamed because of the oaks That ye have desired, And ye are confounded because of the gardens That ye have chosen. 30 For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden that hath no water.



Cross References

Isaiah 57:5

Who are inflamed among oaks, under every green tree, Slaughtering the children in valleys, Under clefts of the rocks.

Isaiah 65:3

The people who are provoking Me to anger, To My face continually, Sacrificing in gardens, and making perfume on the bricks:

Isaiah 66:17

Those sanctifying and cleansing themselves at the gardens, After Ahad in the midst, Eating flesh of the sow, And of the abomination, and of the mouse, Together are consumed, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Hosea 4:13

On tops of the mountains they do sacrifice, And on the hills they make perfume, Under oak, and poplar, and terebinth, For good is its shade.

Isaiah 30:22

And ye have defiled the covering of Thy graven images of silver, And the ephod of thy molten image of gold, Thou scatterest them as a sickening thing, 'Go out,' thou sayest to it.

Isaiah 31:7

For in that day despise doth each His idols of silver, and his idols of gold, That your hands made to you -- a sin.

Isaiah 45:16

They have been ashamed, And they have even blushed -- all of them, Together gone in confusion have those carving images.

Jeremiah 2:20

For from of old thou hast broken thy yoke, Drawn away thy bands, and sayest, 'I do not serve,' For, on every high height, and under every green tree, Thou art wandering -- a harlot.

Jeremiah 3:6

And Jehovah saith unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, 'Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? She is going on every high mountain, and unto the place of every green tree, and committeth fornication there.

Ezekiel 6:13

And ye have known that I am Jehovah, In their wounded being in the midst of their idols, Round about their altars, On every high hill, on all tops of mountains, And under every green tree, and under every thick oak, The place where they gave sweet fragrance to all their idols.

Ezekiel 16:63

So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

Ezekiel 36:31

And ye have remembered your ways that are evil, And your doings that are not good, And have been loathsome in your own faces, For your iniquities, and for your abominations.

Hosea 14:3

Asshur doth not save us, on a horse we ride not, Nor do we say any more, Our God, to the work of our hands, For in Thee find mercy doth the fatherless.'

Hosea 14:8

O Ephraim, what to Me any more with idols? I -- I afflicted, and I cause him to sing: 'I am as a green fir-tree,' From Me is thy fruit found.

Romans 6:21

what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death.

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