Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And ye were left few in extension, instead of which ye were as the stars of the heavens for multitude, because thou heardst not to the voice of Jehovah thy God.
New American Standard Bible
Then you shall be left few in number,
King James Version
And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
Holman Bible
Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God.
International Standard Version
Because you will not have obeyed the LORD your God, very few of you will be left instead of you being as numerous as the stars in the heavens.
A Conservative Version
And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because thou did not hearken to the voice of LORD thy God.
American Standard Version
And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God.
Amplified
Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, you who were as numerous as the stars of heaven shall be left few in number.
Bible in Basic English
And you will become a very small band, though your numbers were like the stars of heaven; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.
Darby Translation
And ye shall be left a small company, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God.
King James 2000
And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And you shall remain {only a few people} in place of [the fact] you were [formerly] as the stars of heaven as far as number [is concerned], because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
Modern King James verseion
And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the heavens for multitude, because you would not obey the voice of Jehovah your God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And ye shall be left few in number, wheretofore ye were as the stars of heaven in multitude: because thou wouldest not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
NET Bible
There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, because you will have disobeyed the Lord your God.
New Heart English Bible
You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you did not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.
The Emphasized Bible
And ye shall be left men few in number, whereas ye had become as the stars of the heavens for multitude, - because thou hast not hearkened unto the voice of Yahweh thy God.
Webster
And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldst not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
World English Bible
You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
Youngs Literal Translation
and ye have been left with few men, instead of which ye have been as stars of the heavens for multitude, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God.
Themes
Disobedience to God » Denunciations against
Disobedience to God » Brings a curse
Holy spirit » Instances of » israelites
Judgments » Denounced against disobedience
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 28:62
Verse Info
Context Readings
Blessings And Curses
61 Also every disease and every blow which is not written in the book of this law, Jehovah will bring them up upon thee, till he destroyed thee. 62 And ye were left few in extension, instead of which ye were as the stars of the heavens for multitude, because thou heardst not to the voice of Jehovah thy God. 63 And it being as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so Jehovah shall rejoice over you to destroy you and to cut you off; and ye were torn away from the land which thou wentest in there to possess it.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:27
And Jehovah scattered you among the peoples, and ye remained men of number among the nations where Jehovah will lead you there.
Deuteronomy 10:22
With seventy souls thy fathers went down to Egypt; and now Jehovah set thee as the stain of the heavens for multitude.
Nehemiah 9:23
And their sons thou didst multiply as the stars of the heavens, and thou wilt bring them to the land which thou saidst to their fathers to come in to possess
2 Kings 24:14
And he carried into exile all Jerusalem, and all the chiefs, and all the mighty of strength, ten thousand exiles, and all the artificers, and the smiths: there was not left except the powerless of the people of the land.
Nehemiah 7:4
And the city broad of hands, and great and the people few in its midst, and the houses not built.
Jeremiah 42:2
And they will say to Jeremiah the prophet, Now shall our supplication fall before thee, and pray thou for us to Jehovah thy God, for all this remnant; for we were left few from many as thine eyes see us.
Leviticus 26:22
And I sent upon you the beast of the field, and it bereaved you of children, and cut off your cattle, and, diminished you, and your ways were laid waste.
2 Kings 13:7
For he left not to Jehoahaz of the people but fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Aram destroyed them, and he will set them as dust to trample upon.
Isaiah 1:9
Unless Jehovah of armies left to us an escaping so small, we were as Sodom and we were made like to Gomorrah.
Isaiah 24:6
For this, the curse consumed the earth, and they dwelling in it, will transgress: for this, they dwelling upon the earth were burned, and those remaining, men of fewness.
Jeremiah 52:28-30
This the people which Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and twenty and three.
Mark 13:20
And except the Lord shortened the days, no flesh should be saved: but for the chosen whom he chose, he shortened the days.
Romans 9:27-29
And Esaias cries for Israel, If the number of the sons of Israel as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved: