Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it.

King James Version

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

Holman Bible

I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it.

International Standard Version

I'll make the land so desolate that your enemies who live in it will be astonished."

A Conservative Version

And I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

American Standard Version

And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

Amplified

I will make the land desolate, and your enemies who settle in it will be appalled at it.

Bible in Basic English

And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.

Darby Translation

And I will bring the land into desolation; that your enemies who dwell there in may be astonished at it.

Julia Smith Translation

And I laid the land waste, and your enemies were astonished at it, they dwelling upon it

King James 2000

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies who dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And I myself will lay waste the land, and your enemies who are living in it shall be appalled over it.

Modern King James verseion

And I will turn the land into wasteland. And your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"'And I will bring the land unto a wilderness: so that your enemies which dwell therein shall wonder at it.

NET Bible

I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.

New Heart English Bible

I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

The Emphasized Bible

And, I, will make the land dumb, And your foes that dwell therein shall regard it with dumb amazement:

Webster

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

World English Bible

I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

Youngs Literal Translation

and I have made desolate the land, and your enemies, who are dwelling in it, have been astonished at it.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And I will bring
שׁמם 
Shamem 
Usage: 89

the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

אויב איב 
'oyeb 
Usage: 272

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

References

Verse Info

Context Readings

Punishment For Disobedience

31 I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas. 32 I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it. 33 You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.


Cross References

Jeremiah 9:11

“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
A haunt of jackals;
And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Jeremiah 18:16

To make their land a desolation,
An object of perpetual hissing;
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And shake his head.

Jeremiah 19:8

I will also make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its disasters.

Jeremiah 25:11

This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Deuteronomy 28:37

You shall become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the Lord drives you.

1 Kings 9:8

And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

Jeremiah 25:18

Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a ruin, a horror, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day;

Ezekiel 5:15

So it will be a reproach, a reviling, a warning and an object of horror to the nations who surround you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath and raging rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Deuteronomy 29:23-28

‘All its land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’

Isaiah 1:7-8

Your land is desolate,
Your cities are burned with fire,
Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your presence;
It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.

Isaiah 5:6

“I will lay it waste;
It will not be pruned or hoed,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain on it.”

Isaiah 5:9

In my ears the Lord of hosts has sworn, “Surely, many houses shall become desolate,
Even great and fine ones, without occupants.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered,
“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,
Houses are without people
And the land is utterly desolate,

Isaiah 24:1

Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.

Isaiah 32:13-14

For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up;
Yea, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.

Isaiah 64:10

Your holy cities have become a wilderness,
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 25:38

“He has left His hiding place like the lion;
For their land has become a horror
Because of the fierceness of the oppressing sword
And because of His fierce anger.”

Jeremiah 44:2

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘You yourselves have seen all the calamity that I have brought on Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are in ruins and no one lives in them,

Jeremiah 44:22

So the Lord was no longer able to endure it, because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations which you have committed; thus your land has become a ruin, an object of horror and a curse, without an inhabitant, as it is this day.

Lamentations 4:12

The kings of the earth did not believe,
Nor did any of the inhabitants of the world,
That the adversary and the enemy
Could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

Lamentations 5:18

Because of Mount Zion which lies desolate,
Foxes prowl in it.

Ezekiel 33:28-29

I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and the pride of her power will cease; and the mountains of Israel will be desolate so that no one will pass through.

Daniel 9:2

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

Daniel 9:18

O my God, incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Your name; for we are not presenting our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great compassion.

Habakkuk 3:17

Though the fig tree should not blossom
And there be no fruit on the vines,
Though the yield of the olive should fail
And the fields produce no food,
Though the flock should be cut off from the fold
And there be no cattle in the stalls,

Luke 21:20

“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near.

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