Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The desolate land shall be builded again, which afore time lay waste in the sight of all them that went by.

New American Standard Bible

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.

King James Version

And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

Holman Bible

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

International Standard Version

The desolate fields will be cultivated, replacing the former wasteland that everyone who passed by in times past had noticed.

A Conservative Version

And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

American Standard Version

And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.

Amplified

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.

Bible in Basic English

And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.

Darby Translation

And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.

Julia Smith Translation

And the desolate land shall be worked instead of its being a desolation before the eyes of all passing by.

King James 2000

And the desolate land shall be tilled, instead of lying desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And the land that was desolate will be cultivated in {the very place that} it was desolate before [the] eyes of all of [the persons] crossing over.

Modern King James verseion

And the waste land shall be tilled, instead of being a ruin before all passing by.

NET Bible

The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

New Heart English Bible

The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

The Emphasized Bible

And the land that was made desolate shall be tilled, - Whereas it was a desolation, before the eyes of every passer-by;

Webster

And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

World English Bible

The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

Youngs Literal Translation

And the desolate land is tilled, Instead of which it was a desolation before the eyes of every passer by,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

שׁממה שׁממה 
Sh@mamah 
Usage: 57

in the sight
עין 
`ayin 
Usage: 372

Verse Info

Context Readings

I Will Put My Spirit Within You

33 Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD God: What time as I shall cleanse you from all your offenses, then will I make the cities to be occupied again, and will repair the places that be decayed. 34 The desolate land shall be builded again, which afore time lay waste in the sight of all them that went by. 35 Then shall it be said, 'This wasteland is become like a garden of pleasure, and the void, desolate and broken down cities are now strong, and fenced again.'

Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:23-28

how all the land is burnt up with brimstone and salt, that it is neither sown nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, after the overthrowing of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim: which the LORD overthrew in his wrath and anger.

2 Chronicles 36:21

to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had her pleasure of her Sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate, she kept Sabbath until she had fulfilled seventy years.

Jeremiah 25:9-11

Lo, I will send out, and call for all the people that dwell in the North, sayeth the LORD, and will prepare Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant, and will bring them upon this land, and upon all that dwell therein, and upon all the people that are about them, and will utterly root them out. I will make of them a wilderness, a mockage, and a continual desert.

Ezekiel 6:14

I will stretch mine hand out upon them, and will make the land waste: So that it shall lie desolate and void from the wilderness of Diblath forth, through all their habitations: to learn them for to know, that I am the LORD.'"

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