Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and languish for them all the day long; and there shall be no power in thy hand to help it.

New American Standard Bible

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.

King James Version

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.

Holman Bible

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.

International Standard Version

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you watch. You won't be able to approach them at all, and you'll be powerless to help.

A Conservative Version

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to another people. And thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day, and there shall be nothing in the power of thy hand.

American Standard Version

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people; and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.

Amplified

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.

Bible in Basic English

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.

Julia Smith Translation

Thy sons and thy daughters given to another people, and thine eyes seeing and failing for them all the day: and nothing for the strength of thy hand.

King James 2000

Your sons and your daughters shall be given unto another people, and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no strength in your hand.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Your sons and your daughters [shall be] given to other people, and {you will be looking on} {longingly} for them all day, {but you will be powerless to do anything}.

Modern King James verseion

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail for them all the day long. And there shall be no power in your hand.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another nation, and thine eyes shall see and daze upon them all day long, but shalt have no might in thine hand.

NET Bible

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.

New Heart English Bible

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand.

The Emphasized Bible

Thy sons and thy daughters given to another people, thine eyes looking on, and failing for them all the day, thine own hand being powerless.

Webster

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to another people, and thy eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thy hand.

World English Bible

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thy sons and thy daughters are given to another people, and thine eyes are looking and consuming for them all the day, and thy hand is not to God!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּת 
Bath 
Usage: 587

נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

אחר 
'acher 
Usage: 166

עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

and thine eyes
עין 
`ayin 
Usage: 372

ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308

and fail
כּלה 
Kaleh 
Usage: 1

with longing for them all the day
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

long and there shall be no might
אל 
'el 
Usage: 114

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Blessings And Curses

31 Thine ox shall be slaughtered before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof; thine ass shall be snatched away from before thy face, and shall not return to thee; thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to recover them. 32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and languish for them all the day long; and there shall be no power in thy hand to help it. 33 The fruit of thy ground and all thy labour, shall a people that thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed continually.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:41

Sons and daughters shalt thou beget, but thou shalt not have them to be with thee; for they shall go into captivity.

2 Chronicles 29:9

And behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

Joel 3:6

and the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the children of the Greeks, that ye might remove them far from their border.

Numbers 21:29

Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, people of Chemosh: He gave his sons that had escaped, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon the king of the Amorites.

Deuteronomy 28:18

Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep.

Deuteronomy 28:65

And among these nations shalt thou have no rest, neither shall the sole of thy foot have a resting-place, and Jehovah shall give thee there a trembling heart, languishing of the eyes, and pining of the soul.

Nehemiah 5:2-5

And there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many, and we must procure corn that we may eat and live.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and all refuge shall vanish from them, and their hope shall be the breathing out of life.

Job 17:5

He that betrayeth friends for a prey even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying, my throat is parched; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Psalm 119:82

Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

Psalm 119:123

Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed with looking upward: Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Jeremiah 15:7-9

And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave of children and destroy my people: they have not returned from their ways.

Jeremiah 16:2-4

Thou shalt not take thee a wife, and thou shalt not have sons nor daughters in this place.

Lamentations 2:11

Mine eyes are consumed with tears, my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the ruin of the daughter of my people; because infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.

Lamentations 5:17

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,

Ezekiel 24:25

And thou, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereunto they lift up their soul, their sons and their daughters,

Amos 5:27

and I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.

Micah 4:10

Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon: there shalt thou be delivered; there Jehovah will redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

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