Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.

New American Standard Bible

Hear this word which I take up for you as a dirge, O house of Israel:

King James Version

Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

Holman Bible

Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament, house of Israel:

International Standard Version

"Hear this accusation that I am bringing against you: "A dirge, house of Israel:

American Standard Version

Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.

Amplified

Hear this word which I take up for you as a funeral song, O house of Israel:

Bible in Basic English

Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.

Darby Translation

Hear this word, a lamentation, which I take up against you, O house of Israel.

Julia Smith Translation

Hear ye this word which I lift up to you, a lamentation, O house of Israel.

King James 2000

Hear you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Hear this word that I [am] going to intone over you [as] a lament, O house of Israel!

Modern King James verseion

Hear this Word which I take up against you, a dirge, O house of Israel.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Hear this word, O ye house of Israel. And why? I must make this moan for you:

NET Bible

Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, family of Israel:

New Heart English Bible

Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.

The Emphasized Bible

Hear ye this word, which, I, am taking up concerning you - even a dirge, O house of Israel.

Webster

Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

World English Bible

Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.

Youngs Literal Translation

Hear this word that I am bearing to you, A lamentation, O house of Israel:

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ye this word
דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1438

which I take up
נסה נשׂא 
Nasa' 
Usage: 653

קינה 
Qiynah 
Usage: 18

O house
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

References

Fausets

Context Readings

A Lament And Call To Repentance

1 Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel. 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise. She is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.


Cross References

Ezekiel 19:1

Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the rulers of Israel,

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off thy hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights. For LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Jeremiah 9:10

For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through, nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the

Jeremiah 9:17

Thus says LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for the skilful women, that they may come.

Jeremiah 9:20

Yet hear the word of LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and each one her neighbor lamentation.

Ezekiel 19:14

And fire has gone out of the twigs of its branches. It has devoured its fruit, so that there is no strong twig in it to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

Ezekiel 26:17

And they shall take up a lamentation over thee, and say to thee, How thou are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city that was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on a

Ezekiel 27:2

And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre,

Ezekiel 27:27-32

Thy riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy caulkers, and the dealers in thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, who are in thee, with all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall int

Ezekiel 28:12

Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says lord LORD: Thou seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Ezekiel 32:2

Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, Thou were compared to a young lion of the nations. Yet thou are as a monster in the seas, and thou broke forth with thy rivers, and troubled the waters w

Ezekiel 32:16

This is the lamentation with which they shall lament. The daughters of the nations shall lament with that over Egypt, and over all her multitude. They shall lament with that, says lord LORD.

Amos 3:1

Hear this word that LORD has spoken against you, O sons of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink.

Amos 5:16

Therefore thus says LORD, the God of hosts, LORD: Wailing shall be in all the broad ways. And they shall say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to

Micah 2:4

In that day they shall take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation. [And] say, We are utterly ruined. He changes the portion of my people. How he removes [it] from me! He divides our fields to the rebelliou

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