Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

You who have escaped the sword, go away; do not stand still. Remember Jehovah afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

New American Standard Bible

You who have escaped the sword,
Depart! Do not stay!
Remember the Lord from afar,
And let Jerusalem come to your mind.

King James Version

Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Holman Bible

You who have escaped the sword,
go and do not stand still!
Remember the Lord from far away,
and let Jerusalem come to your mind.

International Standard Version

Go, you who escaped the sword! Don't stand around! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to your mind.

A Conservative Version

Ye who have escaped the sword, go ye; do not stand still. Remember LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

American Standard Version

Ye that have escaped the sword, go ye, stand not still; remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Amplified


You who have escaped the sword,
Go away! Do not stay!
Remember the Lord from far away,
And let [desolate] Jerusalem come into your mind.

Bible in Basic English

You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.

Darby Translation

Ye that have escaped the sword, go, stand not still: remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Julia Smith Translation

Being saved from the sword, go: ye shall not stand: remember from far off Jehovah, and Jerusalem shall come up upon your heart

King James 2000

You that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Survivors of [the] sword, go! You must not linger! Remember Yahweh from far [away], and let Jerusalem come to your {mind}.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Ye that have escaped the sword: haste you, stand not still. Remember the LORD afar off, and think upon Jerusalem:

NET Bible

You who have escaped the sword, go, do not delay. Remember the Lord in a faraway land. Think about Jerusalem.

New Heart English Bible

You who have escaped the sword, go, do not stand still; remember the LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

The Emphasized Bible

Ye that have escaped the sword, depart do not stand still, - Remember, from afar Yahweh, Let, Jerusalem, come up on your heart:-

Webster

Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

World English Bible

You who have escaped the sword, go, don't stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Youngs Literal Translation

Ye escaped of the sword, go on, stand not, Remember ye from afar Jehovah, And let Jerusalem come up on your heart.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּלּט 
Pallet 
Usage: 1

the sword
חרב 
Chereb 
Usage: 413

go away
הלך 
Halak 
go, walk, come, ...away, ...along,
Usage: 1545

the Lord

Usage: 0

רחק רחוק 
Rachowq 
Usage: 85

ירוּשׁלים ירוּשׁלם 
Y@ruwshalaim 
Usage: 642

עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

References

American

Context Readings

A Message Concerning Babylon

49 As Babylon is to fall for the dead of Israel, so at Babylon the dead of all the earth shall fall. 50 You who have escaped the sword, go away; do not stand still. Remember Jehovah afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. 51 We have turned pale because we have heard reproach; shame has covered our faces, for foreigners have come into the holy places of Jehovah's house.



Cross References

Jeremiah 44:28

Yet the small number that escapes the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah; and all the remnant of Judah (who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there) shall know whose word shall stand, Mine or theirs.

Deuteronomy 4:29-31

But if you shall seek Jehovah your God from there, you shall find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Jeremiah 51:45

My people, go out of her midst; and let each man deliver his soul from the fierce anger of Jehovah.

Deuteronomy 30:1-4

And it shall be when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and when you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Jehovah your God has driven you,

Ezra 1:3-5

Who is there among you of all His people? Let his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Jehovah, the God of Israel (He is God) which is in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:2-4

Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and men of Judah. And I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 2:3-5

And I said to the king, Let the king live forever. Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire?

Psalm 102:13-14

You shall arise, and have mercy on Zion; for the time to pity her, yea, the set time, has come.

Psalm 122:6

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; those who love you shall be blessed.

Psalm 137:5-6

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget.

Isaiah 48:20

Go out of Babylon; flee from the Chaldeans. Tell it with a voice of singing, let this be heard, let it go out to the end of the earth; say, Jehovah has redeemed His servant Jacob.

Isaiah 51:11

Therefore the redeemed of Jehovah shall return and come with singing into Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their head. Gladness and joy shall overtake them; sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

Isaiah 52:2

Shake yourself from the dust; rise up! Sit, Jerusalem! Free yourself from your neckbands, O captive daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 52:11-12

Turn! Turn! Go out from there! Touch not the unclean. Go out of her midst; purify yourself, bearers of the vessels of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 29:12-14

Then you shall call on Me, and you shall go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

Jeremiah 31:21

Set up waymarks, make sign posts for yourself. Set your heart toward the highway, the way you went. Turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.

Jeremiah 50:8

Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flocks.

Jeremiah 51:6

Flee out of the middle of Babylon, and each man deliver his soul. Be not cut off in her iniquity, for this is the time of Jehovah's vengeance; He will give to her a just reward.

Daniel 9:2-3

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood the number of the years by books, which came of the Word of Jehovah to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

Daniel 9:16-19

O Lord, I pray You, according to all Your righteousness let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain. Because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a curse to all those who are around us.

Zechariah 2:7-9

Ho! O Zion, escape, you who live with the daughter of Babylon.

Revelation 18:4

And I heard another voice from Heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that you may not be partakers of her sins, and that you may not receive of her plagues.

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