Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

and the sword shall turn about in his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

New American Standard Bible

The sword will whirl against their cities,
And will demolish their gate bars
And consume them because of their counsels.

King James Version

And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

Holman Bible

A sword will whirl through his cities;
it will destroy and devour the bars of his gates,
because of their schemes.

International Standard Version

The sword will fall on their cities, consuming and devouring their fortified gates, despite their planning.

A Conservative Version

And the sword shall fall upon their cities, and shall consume their bars, and devour [them], because of their own counsels.

American Standard Version

And the sword shall fall upon their cities, and shall consume their bars, and devour them , because of their own counsels.

Amplified


The sword will whirl against and fall on their cities,
And will demolish the bars of their gates and fortifications
And will consume them because of their counsels.

Bible in Basic English

And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs.

Julia Smith Translation

And the sword was polished in his cities, and it consumed his branches, and devoured from their counsels.

King James 2000

And the sword shall rage against his cities, and shall consume his districts, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[The] sword rages in his cities; it consumes his false prophets and devours because of their plans.

Modern King James verseion

And the sword shall remain on his cities, and shall destroy his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Therefore shall the sword begin in their cities, the store that they have laid up shall be destroyed and eaten up: and that because of their own imaginations.

NET Bible

A sword will flash in their cities, it will destroy the bars of their city gates, and will devour them in their fortresses.

New Heart English Bible

The sword will fall on their cities, and will destroy the bars of their gates, and will put an end to their plans.

The Emphasized Bible

Therefore shall the sword, rage, in his cities, and make an end of his multitudes, and consume them, - because of their counsels.

Webster

And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

World English Bible

The sword will fall on their cities, and will destroy the bars of their gates, and will put an end to their plans.

Youngs Literal Translation

Grievous hath been the sword in his cities, And it hath ended his bars, and consumed -- from their own counsels.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the sword
חרב 
Chereb 
Usage: 413

חיל חוּל 
Chuwl 
Usage: 57

on his cities
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

and devour
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

References

Fausets

Context Readings

God Will Have Compassion

5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king; for they refused to return to me; 6 and the sword shall turn about in his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels. 7 Yea, my people are bent upon backsliding from me: though they call them to the Most High, none at all exalteth him.

Cross References

Hosea 13:16

Samaria shall bear her guilt; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

Hosea 10:6

Yea, it shall be carried unto Assyria as a present for king Jareb: Ephraim shall be seized with shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

Hosea 10:14

And a tumult shall arise among thy peoples, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces with the children.

Leviticus 26:31

And I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries; and I will not smell your sweet odours.

Leviticus 26:33

And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be desolation, and your cities waste.

Deuteronomy 28:52

And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and strong walls wherein thou trustedst come down, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.

Deuteronomy 32:25

From without shall the sword bereave them, and in the chambers, terror Both the young man and the virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

Psalm 80:11-16

It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto the river.

Psalm 106:39

And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.

Psalm 106:43

Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.

Isaiah 9:14

And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day:

Isaiah 18:5

For before the harvest, when the blossoming is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-knives, and take away and cut down the branches.

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its boughs.

Isaiah 30:1

Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, who take counsel, but not of me, and who make leagues, but not by my Spirit, that they may heap sin upon sin;

Jeremiah 5:17

And they shall eat up thy harvest and thy bread, they shall eat up thy sons and thy daughters, they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds, they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall destroy with the sword thy strong cities, wherein thou trustedst.

Ezekiel 15:2-7

Son of man, what is the wood of the vine more than any wood, the vine-branch, which is among the trees of the forest?

Ezekiel 20:47

and say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of Jehovah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flashing flame shall not be quenched; and all that it meets from the south to the north shall be burned thereby.

Micah 5:11

And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and overthrow all thy strongholds.

Malachi 4:1

For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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