Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Thus says lord LORD: An evil, an only evil, behold, it comes.

New American Standard Bible

“Thus says the Lord God, ‘A disaster, unique disaster, behold it is coming!

King James Version

Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

Holman Bible

This is what the Lord God says:

Look, one disaster after another is coming!

International Standard Version

"This is what the Lord GOD says: "It's one evil event after another! ""Look out! It's coming!

American Standard Version

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil; behold, it cometh.

Amplified

“Thus says the Lord God, ‘A disaster is coming, [one so destructive and injurious, so sudden and violent, that it stands alone,] a unique disaster, look it is coming!

Bible in Basic English

This is what the Lord has said: An evil, even one evil; see, it is coming.

Darby Translation

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil! behold, it is come.

Julia Smith Translation

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: An evil, one evil, behold, coming

King James 2000

Thus says the Lord GOD; An evil, a special evil, behold, has come.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Look! Disaster after disaster [is] coming!

Modern King James verseion

So says the Lord Jehovah: An evil: Behold, an only evil has come!

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, one misery and plague shall come after another.

NET Bible

"This is what the sovereign Lord says: A disaster -- a one-of-a-kind disaster -- is coming!

New Heart English Bible

"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a unique disaster; behold, it comes.

The Emphasized Bible

Thus saith My Lord Yahweh:A calamity, a sole calamity, lo! it hath come.

Webster

Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

World English Bible

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Evil, a single evil, lo, it hath come.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
the Lord
אדני 
'Adonay 
Usage: 438

God
יהוה 
Y@hovih 
Usage: 302

an only
אחד 
'echad 
Usage: 432

Verse Info

Context Readings

Punishment For Abominations Throughout The Land

4 And my eye shall not spare thee, nor will I have pity. But I will bring thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee. And ye shall know that I am LORD. 5 Thus says lord LORD: An evil, an only evil, behold, it comes. 6 An end has come. The end has come. It awakens against thee. Behold, it comes.


Cross References

2 Kings 21:12-13

therefore thus says LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I bring such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle.

Ezekiel 5:9

And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and of which I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.

Nahum 1:9

What do ye devise against LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction shall not rise up the second time.

Daniel 9:12

And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil, for under the whole heaven has not been done as has been done upon Jerusalem.

Amos 3:2

You only I have known of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.

Matthew 24:21

for then there will be great tribulation, such as not has happened from the beginning of the world until now, nor, no, it will not happen.

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