Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
So I will send them in all directions, as dry grass is taken away by the wind of the waste land.
New American Standard Bible
To the desert
King James Version
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
Holman Bible
before the desert wind.
International Standard Version
I'll scatter them like chaff blown away by a desert wind.
A Conservative Version
Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
American Standard Version
Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passeth away, by the wind of the wilderness.
Amplified
“Therefore I will scatter you like drifting straw
[Driven away] by the desert wind.
Darby Translation
And I will scatter them as stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
Julia Smith Translation
And I will scatter them as the straw passing away by the wind of the desert.
King James 2000
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And I will scatter them like stubble scattered by [the] wind of [the] desert.
Modern King James verseion
And I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Therefore will I scatter you, like as the stubble that is taken away with the south wind.
NET Bible
"The Lord says, 'That is why I will scatter your people like chaff that is blown away by a desert wind.
New Heart English Bible
'therefore I will scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.
The Emphasized Bible
Therefore have I scattered them, As broken straw passing away, by the wind of the desert.
Webster
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
World English Bible
Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I scatter them as stubble, Passing away, by a wind of the wilderness.
Interlinear
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Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 13:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message For The King And The Queen Mother
23 Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil. 24 So I will send them in all directions, as dry grass is taken away by the wind of the waste land. 25 This is your fate, the part measured out to you by me, says the Lord, because you have put me out of your memory and put your faith in what is false.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:33
And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.
Psalm 1:4
The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.
Ezekiel 5:2
You are to have a third part burned with fire inside the town, when the days of the attack are ended; and a third part you are to take and give blows with the sword round about it; and give a third part for the wind to take away, and let loose a sword after them.
Ezekiel 5:12
A third of you will come to death from disease, wasting away among you through need of food; a third will be put to the sword round about you; and a third I will send away to every wind, letting loose a sword after them.
Deuteronomy 4:27
And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.
Deuteronomy 28:64
And the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other: there you will be servants to other gods, of wood and stone, gods of which you and your fathers had no knowledge.
Deuteronomy 32:26
I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:
Isaiah 17:13
But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.
Isaiah 41:16
You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 4:11-12
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A burning wind from the open hilltops in the waste land is blowing on the daughter of my people, not for separating or cleaning the grain;
Ezekiel 6:8
But still, I will keep a small band safe from the sword among the nations, when you are sent wandering among the countries.
Ezekiel 17:21
All his best fighting-men will be put to the sword, and the rest will be sent away to every wind: and you will be certain that I the Lord have said it.
Hosea 13:3
So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.
Zephaniah 2:2
Before the Lord sends you violently away in flight like the waste from the grain; before the burning wrath of the Lord comes on you, before the day of the Lord's wrath comes on you.
Luke 21:24
And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.