Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

“I would have said: I will cut them to pieces
and blot out the memory of them from mankind,

New American Standard Bible

‘I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces,
I will remove the memory of them from men,”

King James Version

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

International Standard Version

"I said, "I will scatter them, erasing their memory from the human race,

A Conservative Version

I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,

American Standard Version

I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;

Amplified


‘I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces [scattering them far away],
I will remove the memory of them from men,”

Bible in Basic English

I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:

Darby Translation

I would say, I will scatter, I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,

Julia Smith Translation

I have said I will blow them away, I will turn away their remembrance from man;

King James 2000

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

Lexham Expanded Bible

I thought, "I will wipe them out; {I will make people forget they ever existed}."

Modern King James verseion

I said I would dash them to pieces; I would make the memory of them to cease from among men,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I have determined to scatter them throughout the world, and to make away the remembrance of them from among men,

NET Bible

"I said, 'I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.

New Heart English Bible

I said, I want to cut them to pieces. I will remove the memory of them from men;

The Emphasized Bible

I said, I would puff them away, I would destroy from mortals, their memory;

Webster

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;

World English Bible

I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;

Youngs Literal Translation

I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּאה 
Pa'ah 
Usage: 1

זכר זכר 
Zeker 
Usage: 23

of them to cease
שׁבת 
Shabath 
Usage: 71

References

Verse Info

Context Readings

Moses' Song

25 Outside, the sword will take their children,
and inside, there will be terror;
the young man and the young woman will be killed,
the infant and the gray-haired man.
26 “I would have said: I will cut them to pieces
and blot out the memory of them from mankind,
27 if I had not feared insult from the enemy,
or feared that these foes might misunderstand
and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed;
it wasn’t the Lord who did all this.’”



Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:64

Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

Leviticus 26:33

But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.

Leviticus 26:38

You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.

Deuteronomy 4:27

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be reduced to a few survivors among the nations where the Lord your God will drive you.

Deuteronomy 28:25

The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.

Psalm 34:16

The face of the Lord is set
against those who do what is evil,
to erase all memory of them from the earth.

Isaiah 63:16

Yet You are our Father,
even though Abraham does not know us
and Israel doesn’t recognize us.
You, Yahweh, are our Father;
from ancient times,
Your name is our Redeemer.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

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