Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Sword, awake against My shepherd, And against a hero -- My fellow, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. Smite the shepherd, and scattered is the flock, And I have put back My hand on the little ones.

New American Standard Bible

“Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,
And against the man, My Associate,”
Declares the Lord of hosts.
Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered;
And I will turn My hand against the little ones.

King James Version

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

Holman Bible

Sword, awake against My shepherd,
against the man who is My associate—
this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
I will also turn My hand against the little ones.

International Standard Version

"Arise, sword, against my shepherd, against the mighty one who is related to me," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. "Strike the shepherd, the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn against the insignificant ones.

A Conservative Version

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is my companion, says LORD of hosts. Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

American Standard Version

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

Amplified


“Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,
And against the Man, My Associate,”
Declares the Lord of hosts.
“Strike the Shepherd so that the sheep [of the flock] may be scattered;
And I will turn My hand and stretch it out against the little ones [of the flock].

Bible in Basic English

Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.

Darby Translation

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, even against the man that is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered, and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

Julia Smith Translation

O sword, be raised up against my shepherd, and against the man of my fellowship, says Jehovah of armies: strike the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered; and I turned back my hand upon the little ones.

King James 2000

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is close to me, says the LORD of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"O sword, awake against my shepherd, against [the] man [who is] my associate," {declares} Yahweh of hosts. "Strike the shepherd, so that the sheep may be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the small [ones].

Modern King James verseion

Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the Man who is My companion, says Jehovah of Hosts; strike the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn My hand on the little ones.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Arise, O thou sword, upon my shepherd, and upon the prince of my people, sayeth the LORD of Hosts: Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad, and so will I turn mine hand to the little ones.

NET Bible

"Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate," says the Lord who rules over all. Strike the shepherd that the flock may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the insignificant ones.

New Heart English Bible

"Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me," says the LORD of hosts. "Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

The Emphasized Bible

O Sword! awake against my shepherd, even against the man that is my companion, urgeth Yahweh of hosts, - Smite the shepherd, and let the flock, be scattered, Howbeit I will turn back my hand over the little ones.

Webster

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

World English Bible

"Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me," says Yahweh of Armies. "Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עוּר 
`uwr 
Usage: 80

O sword
חרב 
Chereb 
Usage: 413

and against the man
גּבר 
Geber 
Usage: 65

that is my fellow
עמית 
`amiyth 
Usage: 12

נאם 
N@'um 
Usage: 376

the Lord

Usage: 0

of hosts
צבאה צבא 
Tsaba' 
Usage: 483

נכה 
Nakah 
Usage: 501

the shepherd
רעה 
Ra`ah 
Usage: 171

and the sheep
צאון צאןo 
Tso'n 
Usage: 274

and I will turn
שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

Context Readings

God's People Cleansed

6 And one hath said unto him, 'What are these wounds in thy hands?' And he hath said, 'Because I was smitten at home by my lovers.' 7 Sword, awake against My shepherd, And against a hero -- My fellow, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. Smite the shepherd, and scattered is the flock, And I have put back My hand on the little ones. 8 And it hath come to pass, In all the land, an affirmation of Jehovah, Two parts in it are cut off -- they expire, And the third is left in it.



Cross References

Isaiah 40:11

As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth them: Suckling ones He leadeth.

Matthew 26:31

then saith Jesus to them, 'All ye shall be stumbled at me this night; for it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad;

Mark 14:27

and Jesus saith to them -- 'All ye shall be stumbled at me this night, because it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad,

Zechariah 11:7

And I feed the flock of slaughter, even you, ye afflicted of the flock; and I take to me two staves, the one I have called Pleasantness, and the other I have called Bands, and I feed the flock.

Jeremiah 23:5-6

Lo, days are coming -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have raised to David a righteous shoot, And a king hath reigned and acted wisely, And done judgment and righteousness in the earth.

Jeremiah 47:6

Ho, sword of Jehovah, till when art thou not quiet? Be removed unto thy sheath, rest and cease.

Ezekiel 37:24

And My servant David is king over them, And one shepherd have they all, And in My judgments they go, And My statutes they keep, and have done them.

Micah 5:2

And thou, Beth-Lehem Ephratah, Little to be among the chiefs of Judah! From thee to Me he cometh forth -- to be ruler in Israel, And his comings forth are of old, From the days of antiquity.

Isaiah 9:6

For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 53:4-10

Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains -- he hath carried them, And we -- we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted.

Ezekiel 21:4-5

Because that I have cut off from thee righteous and wicked, Therefore go out doth My sword from its scabbard, Unto all flesh, from south to north.

Ezekiel 34:23-24

And have raised up over them one shepherd, And he hath fed them -- my servant David, He doth feed them, and he is their shepherd,

Daniel 9:24-26

'Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.

Micah 5:4

And he hath stood and delighted in the strength of Jehovah, In the excellency of the name of Jehovah his God, And they have remained, For now he is great unto the ends of earth.

Zechariah 11:4

Thus said Jehovah my God: 'Feed the flock of the slaughter,

Matthew 11:27

All things were delivered to me by my Father, and none doth know the Son, except the Father, nor doth any know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal Him.

Mark 14:50

And having left him they all fled;

John 1:1-2

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

John 10:30

I and the Father are one.'

John 16:32

and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me;

Romans 4:25

who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.

2 Corinthians 5:21

for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

Hebrews 13:20

And the God of the peace, who did bring up out of the dead the great shepherd of the sheep -- in the blood of an age-during covenant -- our Lord Jesus,

1 Peter 3:18

because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,

1 John 4:9-10

In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son -- the only begotten -- hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;

Revelation 1:8

I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming -- the Almighty.'

Deuteronomy 32:41-42

If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me -- I repay!

Psalm 2:2

Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:

Isaiah 27:1

In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword -- the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan -- a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan -- a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that is in the sea.

Ezekiel 21:9-10

'Son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said, Thus said Jehovah, say: A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished.

Ezekiel 21:28

And thou, son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah concerning the sons of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: and thou hast said: A sword, a sword, open for slaughter, Polished to the utmost for brightness!

Hosea 12:3-5

In the womb he took his brother by the heel, And by his strength he was a prince with God,

Zechariah 11:11

and it is broken in that day, and know well do the afflicted of the flock who are observing me, that it is a word of Jehovah.

Matthew 1:23

Lo, the virgin shall conceive, and she shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel,' which is, being interpreted 'With us he is God.'

Matthew 10:42

and whoever may give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward.'

Matthew 18:10

Beware! -- ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

Matthew 18:14

so it is not will in presence of your Father who is in the heavens, that one of these little ones may perish.

Matthew 26:56

but all this hath come to pass, that the Writings of the prophets may be fulfilled;' then all the disciples, having left him, fled.

Luke 12:32

'Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;

Luke 17:2

it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.

John 1:29

on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, 'Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

John 3:14-17

'And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,

John 5:17-18

And Jesus answered them, 'My Father till now doth work, and I work;'

John 5:23

that all may honour the Son according as they honour the Father; he who is not honouring the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him.

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming -- I am;'

John 10:10-18

The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

John 10:38

and if I do, even if me ye may not believe, the works believe, that ye may know and may believe that in me is the Father, and I in Him.'

John 14:1

'Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

John 14:9-11

Jesus saith to him, 'So long time am I with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? he who hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how dost thou say, Shew to us the Father?

John 14:23

Jesus answered and said to him, 'If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

John 16:15

'All things, as many as the Father hath, are mine; because of this I said, That of mine He will take, and will tell to you;

John 17:21-23

that they all may be one, as Thou Father art in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

John 18:8-9

Jesus answered, 'I said to you that I am he; if, then, me ye seek, suffer these to go away;'

Acts 2:23

this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified -- ye did slay;

Acts 4:26-28

the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ;

Romans 3:24-26

being declared righteous freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Romans 5:6-10

For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious;

Romans 8:32

He who indeed His own Son did not spare, but for us all did deliver him up, how shall He not also with him the all things grant to us?

Galatians 3:13

Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'

Philippians 2:6

who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal to God,

Colossians 1:15-20

who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,

Hebrews 1:6-12

and when again He may bring in the first-born to the world, He saith, 'And let them bow before him -- all messengers of God;'

Hebrews 10:5-10

Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, 'Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,

1 Peter 1:18-20

having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

1 Peter 2:24-25

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

1 Peter 5:4

and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.

1 John 2:2

and he -- he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

Revelation 1:11

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;' and, 'What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies that are in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'

Revelation 1:17

And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, 'Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last,

Revelation 2:23

and her children I will kill in death, and know shall all the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts; and I will give to you -- to each -- according to your works.

Revelation 13:8

And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;

Revelation 21:6

and He said to me, 'It hath been done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; I, to him who is thirsting, will give of the fountain of the water of the life freely;

Revelation 22:13-16

I am the Alpha and the Omega -- the Beginning and End -- the First and the Last.

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