Parallel Verses
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 American Standard Bible
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.
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.
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.
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!
Themes
Disobedience to God » Denunciations against
Disobedience to God » Brings a curse
Holy spirit » Instances of » israelites
Judgments » Denounced against disobedience
Obedience to God » Punishment of refusing
Powerlessness » Of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Israel could not stand before their enemies
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Nathan
`ayin
Ra'ah
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 28:32
Verse Info
Context Readings
Blessings And Curses
31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you. 32 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. 33 As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:41
You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.
2 Chronicles 29:9
Look, our fathers died violently and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off because of this.
Joel 3:6
You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks, removing them far from their own country.
Numbers 21:29
Woe to you, Moab. You are ruined, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters the prisoners of King Sihon of the Amorites.
Deuteronomy 28:18
Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
Deuteronomy 28:65
Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.
Nehemiah 5:2-5
There were those who said, "With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain grain in order to eat and stay alive."
Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last."
Job 17:5
If a man denounces his friends for personal gain, the eyes of his children will fail.
Psalm 69:3
I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.
Psalm 119:82
My eyes grow tired as I wait for your promise to be fulfilled. I say, "When will you comfort me?"
Psalm 119:123
My eyes grow tired as I wait for your deliverance, for your reliable promise to be fulfilled.
Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. O sovereign master, I am oppressed; help me!
Jeremiah 15:7-9
The Lord continued, "In every town in the land I will purge them like straw blown away by the wind. I will destroy my people. I will kill off their children. I will do so because they did not change their behavior.
Jeremiah 16:2-4
"Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.
Lamentations 2:11
(Kaf) My eyes are worn out from weeping; my stomach is in knots. My heart is poured out on the ground due to the destruction of my helpless people; children and infants faint in the town squares.
Lamentations 4:17
(Ayin) Our eyes continually failed us as we looked in vain for help. From our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not rescue us.
Lamentations 5:17
Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.
Ezekiel 24:25
"And you, son of man, this is what will happen on the day I take from them their stronghold -- their beautiful source of joy, the object in which their eyes delight, and the main concern of their lives, as well as their sons and daughters:
Amos 5:27
and I will drive you into exile beyond Damascus," says the Lord. He is called the God who commands armies!
Micah 4:10
Twist and strain, Daughter Zion, as if you were in labor! For you will leave the city and live in the open field. You will go to Babylon, but there you will be rescued. There the Lord will deliver you from the power of your enemies.