Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee. Thou have become a horror, and thou shall nevermore have any being.

New American Standard Bible

‘The merchants among the peoples hiss at you;
You have become terrified
And you will cease to be forever.’”’”

King James Version

The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.

Holman Bible

Those who trade among the peoples
mock you;
you have become an object of horror
and will never exist again.”

International Standard Version

Traders circulate among the people, hissing at you. What a horror you've become! Now you will cease to exist forever and ever!"

American Standard Version

The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art become a terror, and thou shalt nevermore have any being.

Amplified


‘The merchants among the people hiss at you [with malicious joy];
You have become a horror and a source of terrors.
You will cease to be forever.’”’”

Bible in Basic English

Those who do business among the peoples make sounds of surprise at you; you have become a thing of fear, you have come to an end for ever.

Darby Translation

The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art become a terror, and thou shalt never be any more.

Julia Smith Translation

The merchants among the peoples hissed at thee; thou wert terrors; and thou not, even forever.

King James 2000

The merchants among the people shall hiss at you; you shall become a terror, and never shall be any more.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The traders among the peoples hiss over you; you have become horror, and {you shall be no more forever}!'"

Modern King James verseion

The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have become terrors. And you shall not be forever.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The merchants of the nations wonder at thee, in that thou art so clean brought to naught, and comest no more up.'"

NET Bible

The traders among the peoples hiss at you; you have become a horror, and will be no more.'"

New Heart English Bible

The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being."'"

The Emphasized Bible

the traders among the peoples, have hissed over thee: A terror, hast thou become, And I art not, Unto times age-abiding.

Webster

The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.

World English Bible

The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.

Youngs Literal Translation

Merchants among the peoples have shrieked for thee, Wastes thou hast been, and thou art not -- to the age!'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
סחר 
Cachar 
Usage: 21

עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

שׁרק 
Sharaq 
Usage: 12

at thee thou shalt be a terror
בּלּהה 
Ballahah 
Usage: 10

References

Hastings

Context Readings

A Lament For Doomed Tyre

35 All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their countenance. 36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee. Thou have become a horror, and thou shall nevermore have any being.

Cross References

Jeremiah 18:16

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shake his head.

Psalm 37:10

For yet a little while, and the wicked man shall not be. Yea, thou shall diligently consider his place, and he shall not be.

Psalm 37:36

But I passed by, and, lo, he was not. Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Jeremiah 19:8

And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.

Ezekiel 26:21

I will make thee a horror, and thou shall no more have any being. Though thou be sought for, yet thou shall never be found again, says lord LORD.

Zephaniah 2:15

This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me. How she has become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

1 Kings 9:8

And though this house is so high, yet shall every man who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss. And they shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?

Jeremiah 49:17

And Edom shall become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it.

Jeremiah 50:13

Because of the wrath of LORD she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

Lamentations 2:15

All who pass by clap their hands at thee. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

Ezekiel 26:2

Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken, the gate of the peoples. She has turned around to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,

Ezekiel 26:14

And I will make thee a bare rock; thou shall be a place for the spreading of nets. Thou shall be built no more, for I LORD have spoken it, says lord LORD.

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