Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

For Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, They are tangled in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.

New American Standard Bible

For Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, ‘They are wandering aimlessly in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’

King James Version

For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

Holman Bible

Pharaoh will say of the Israelites: They are wandering around the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.

International Standard Version

Pharaoh will say about the Israelis, "They're wandering aimlessly in the land, and the desert has closed in on them.'

A Conservative Version

And Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, They are entangled in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.

American Standard Version

And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

Amplified

For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering aimlessly in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’

Bible in Basic English

And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are wandering without direction, they are shut in by the waste land.

Darby Translation

And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness has hemmed them in.

Julia Smith Translation

And Pharaoh will say concerning the sons of Israel, They are wandering in perplexity in the land; the desert closed upon them.

King James 2000

For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness has shut them in.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And Pharaoh will say of the {Israelites}, 'They are wandering around in the land. The desert has closed in on them.'

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are tangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.'

NET Bible

Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites, 'They are wandering around confused in the land -- the desert has closed in on them.'

New Heart English Bible

Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.'

The Emphasized Bible

Then will Pharaoh say, of the sons of Israel, Entangled, they are in the land, - the desert hath closed in upon them.

Webster

For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

World English Bible

Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.'

Youngs Literal Translation

and Pharaoh hath said of the sons of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut upon them;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּרעה 
Par`oh 
Usage: 268

will say

Usage: 0

of Israel
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

בּוּך 
Buwk 
Usage: 3

in the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

מדבּר 
Midbar 
Usage: 271

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Context Readings

Yahweh Rescues Israel At The Red Sea

2 Speak to the sons of Israel that they turn and camp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon. You shall camp before it, by the sea. 3 For Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, They are tangled in the land; the wilderness has shut them in. 4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he will follow them. And I will be honored upon Pharaoh, and upon all his army, so that the Egyptians may know that I am Jehovah. And they did so.

Cross References

Exodus 7:3-4

And I will harden Pharaoh's heart and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 31:21

And it shall be when many evils and troubles have found them, this song shall testify against them as a witness. For it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed. For I know their imagination which they do, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.

Judges 16:2

The Gazites were told, saying, Samson has come here. And they surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, Until the light of the morning, then we shall kill him.

1 Samuel 23:7

And it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, God has delivered him into my hands, for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars.

1 Samuel 23:23

And see and know of all the hiding places where he hides himself there, and return to me prepared. And I will go with you. And it shall be, if he is in the land, I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.

Psalm 3:2

Many are saying of my soul, There is no deliverance for him in God. Selah.

Psalm 71:11

saying, God has forsaken him; pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.

Psalm 139:2

You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.

Psalm 139:4

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Jehovah, You know it altogether.

Jeremiah 20:10-11

For I heard the slanders of many, Terror is all around! Expose! Yea, let us expose him! Every man of my peace is watching for my fall, saying, Perhaps he will be lured away, and we shall prevail over him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

Ezekiel 38:10-11

So says the Lord Jehovah: And it shall be in that day that things shall come into your heart, and you shall devise an evil plan.

Ezekiel 38:17

So says the Lord Jehovah: Are you he of whom I have spoken in former days, by the hand of My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days and years that I would bring you against them?

Acts 4:28

in order to do whatever Your hand and Your counsel determined before to be done.

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