Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

and the remainder of the number of bowmen, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for the Lord God of Israel has spoken.”

King James Version

And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.

Holman Bible

The remaining Kedarite archers will be few in number.” For the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.

International Standard Version

And there will be few archers, those who are descendants of Kedar, who survive, because the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken."

A Conservative Version

And the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, shall be few. For LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it.

American Standard Version

and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.

Amplified

and the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.”

Bible in Basic English

And the rest of the bowmen, the men of war of the children of Kedar, will be small in number: for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said it.

Darby Translation

and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, shall be diminished: for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken.

Julia Smith Translation

And the rest of the bows of the strong sons of Kedar shall be few: for Jehovah God of Israel spake.

King James 2000

And the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel has spoken it.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And the remainder of the number of the bows of the warriors of the sons of Kedar will be few." For Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken.

Modern King James verseion

and the rest of the number of archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, shall be cut down; for Jehovah, the God of Israel, has spoken.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And the number of them that shall escape from the bows shall be minished by the mighty children of Cedar: For the LORD God of Israel hath spoken."

NET Bible

Just a handful of archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be left." Indeed, the Lord God of Israel has spoken.

New Heart English Bible

and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it."

The Emphasized Bible

And, the remnant of the record of bowmen, The heroes of the sons of Kedar, shall become few; For Yahweh God of Israel, hath spoken.

Webster

And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.

World English Bible

and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it."

Youngs Literal Translation

And the remnant of the number of bow-men, The mighty of the sons of Kedar are few, For Jehovah, God of Israel, hath spoken!'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the residue
שׁאר 
Sh@'ar 
Usage: 26

of the number
מספּר 
Micpar 
Usage: 132

of archers
קשׁת 
Qesheth 
Usage: 75

the mighty men
גּבּר גּבּור 
Gibbowr 
Usage: 159

of Kedar
קדר 
Qedar 
Usage: 12

for the Lord

Usage: 0

God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

of Israel
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1142

References

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Context Readings

Oracle Against Arabia

16 For thus the Lord said to me, “In a year, as a hired man would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will terminate; 17 and the remainder of the number of bowmen, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for the Lord God of Israel has spoken.”


Cross References

Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent;
Has He said, and will He not do it?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

Isaiah 1:20

“But if you refuse and rebel,
You will be devoured by the sword.”
Truly, the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Zechariah 1:6

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? Then they repented and said, ‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to do to us in accordance with our ways and our deeds, so He has dealt with us.’”’”

Psalm 107:39

When they are diminished and bowed down
Through oppression, misery and sorrow,

Isaiah 10:18-19

And He will destroy the glory of his forest and of his fruitful garden, both soul and body,
And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.

Isaiah 17:4-5

Now in that day the glory of Jacob will fade,
And the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

Jeremiah 44:29

This will be the sign to you,’ declares the Lord, ‘that I am going to punish you in this place, so that you may know that My words will surely stand against you for harm.’

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

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