Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

The earth will be stripped completely bare
and will be totally plundered,
for the Lord has spoken this message.

New American Standard Bible

The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for the Lord has spoken this word.

King James Version

The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.

International Standard Version

The earth will be utterly depopulated and completely laid waste for the LORD has spoken this message.

A Conservative Version

The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste, for LORD has spoken this word.

American Standard Version

The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.

Amplified

The earth will be completely laid waste and utterly pillaged, for the Lord has spoken this word.

Bible in Basic English

The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord.

Darby Translation

The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.

Julia Smith Translation

Being emptied, the land shall be emptied: and being plundered, it shall be plundered: for Jehovah spake this word.

King James 2000

The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly plundered: for the LORD has spoken this word.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The earth shall be utterly laid waste, and it shall be utterly plundered, for Yahweh has spoken this word.

Modern King James verseion

The land shall be completely emptied, and utterly stripped; for Jehovah has spoken this Word.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Yea miserably shall the world be wasted and clean destroyed. For the LORD hath so determined in himself.

NET Bible

The earth will be completely devastated and thoroughly ransacked. For the Lord has decreed this judgment.

New Heart English Bible

The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for the LORD has spoken this word.

The Emphasized Bible

Emptied - emptied - shall be the earth yea pillaged - pillaged, - For, Yahweh, hath spoken this word.

Webster

The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.

World English Bible

The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.

Youngs Literal Translation

Utterly emptied is the land, and utterly spoiled, For Jehovah hath spoken this word:

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

בּקק 
Baqaq 
Usage: 9

בּקק 
Baqaq 
Usage: 9

and utterly
בּזז 
Bazaz 
Usage: 43

בּזז 
Bazaz 
Usage: 43

for the Lord

Usage: 0

דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1142

Context Readings

The Judgment On The Earth

2 people and priest alike,
servant and master,
female servant and mistress,
buyer and seller,
lender and borrower,
creditor and debtor.
3 The earth will be stripped completely bare
and will be totally plundered,
for the Lord has spoken this message.
4 The earth mourns and withers;
the world wastes away and withers;
the exalted people of the earth waste away.


Cross References

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “Until when, Lord?” And He replied:

Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants,
houses are without people,
the land is ruined and desolate,

Isaiah 24:1

Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare
and making it desolate.
He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:

Leviticus 26:30-35

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you.

Deuteronomy 29:23

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in His fierce anger.

Deuteronomy 29:28

The Lord uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and threw them into another land where they are today.’

2 Chronicles 36:21

This fulfilled the word of the Lord through Jeremiah and the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation until 70 years were fulfilled.

Isaiah 21:17

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

Isaiah 22:25

On that day”—the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“the peg that was driven into a firm place will give way, be cut off, and fall, and the load on it will be destroyed.” Indeed, the Lord has spoken.

Jeremiah 13:15

Listen and pay attention. Do not be proud,
for the Lord has spoken.

Ezekiel 36:4

therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become plunder and a mockery to the rest of the nations all around.

Micah 4:4

But each man will sit under his grapevine
and under his fig tree
with no one to frighten him.
For the mouth of the Lord of Hosts
has promised this.

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