Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

A noise of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

New American Standard Bible

“The noise of battle is in the land,
And great destruction.

King James Version

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

Holman Bible

The sound of war is in the land
a great destruction.

International Standard Version

The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction.

A Conservative Version

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

American Standard Version

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

Amplified


“The noise of battle is in the land,
And [the noise of] great destruction.

Bible in Basic English

There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction.

Darby Translation

A sound of battle is in the land, and great destruction.

Julia Smith Translation

The voice of war in the land, and a great breaking.

King James 2000

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[The] sound of battle [is] in the land, and great destruction.

Modern King James verseion

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great ruin.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

There is gone about the land a cry of a slaughter and great murder, namely on this manner:

NET Bible

The noise of battle can be heard in the land of Babylonia. There is the sound of great destruction.

New Heart English Bible

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

The Emphasized Bible

The sound of battle is in the earth, - And a great destruction.

Webster

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

World English Bible

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
A sound
קל קול 
Qowl 
Usage: 506

of battle
מלחמה 
Milchamah 
Usage: 319

is in the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

and of great
גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

Verse Info

Context Readings

A Message Concerning Babylon

21 Against the land of Merathaim: Go up against it, and unto the inhabitants of Pekod, Waste and devote their posterity, An affirmation of Jehovah, And do according to all that I have commanded thee. 22 A noise of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. 23 How hath it been cut and broken, The hammer of the whole earth! How hath Babylon been for a desolation among nations!



Cross References

Jeremiah 4:19-21

My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul -- a shout of battle!

Jeremiah 51:54-56

A voice of a cry is from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldean.

Isaiah 21:2-4

A hard vision hath been declared to me, The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, All its sighing I have caused to cease.

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