Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

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

Darby Translation

and the sword shall turn about in his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour them, because of their own 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 turn back to the land of Egypt, and Assur shall be his king, for they refused to turn back. 6 And the sword was polished in his cities, and it consumed his branches, and devoured from their counsels. 7 And my people are bent to turning away from me: and they will call together to the Most High; he will not exalt them.

Cross References

Hosea 13:16

Shomeron shall be guilty, for she rebelled against her God: by the sword shall they fall: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and they having conceived shall be cleft asunder.

Hosea 10:6

Also it shall be brought to Assur a gift to king Jareb: Ephraim shall take shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his counsel.

Hosea 10:14

And an uproar arose among thy people, and all thy fortifications shall be laid waste, as Shaman laid waste the house of the ambush of God in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon the sons.

Leviticus 26:31

And I gave your cities a desert, and I laid waste your holy places, and I will not smell upon the odor of your sweetness.

Leviticus 26:33

And I will scatter you among the nations, and I drew out after you a sword: and your land was a desert, and your cities shall be a desolation.

Deuteronomy 28:52

And he passed upon thee in all thy gates until the coming down of thy high and inaccessible fortresses which thou trustest in them in all thy land: and he passed upon thee in all thy gates in all thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee.

Deuteronomy 32:25

The sword shall bereave without, And terror from the chambers, Also the youth, also the virgin, The suckling, with the man of gray hair.

Psalm 80:11-16

Thou Wilt send forth her boughs even to the sea, and her suckers to the river.

Psalm 106:39

And they will be defiled with their works: and they will commit fornication in their doings.

Psalm 106:43

Many times he will deliver them, and they will embitter with their counsel, and they will be brought low in their iniquity.

Isaiah 9:14

And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day.

Isaiah 18:5

For before the harvest, when the flower was completed, and the sour grape shall be ripening in the flower, and he cut off the shoots with pruning-hooks, and cutting off he took away the tendrils.

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city was separated, the habitation being cast out and forsaken as the desert: there shall the Isaiah 27:calf feed, and there he shall lie down, and there he finished its branches.

Isaiah 30:1

Wo to sons turning aside, says Jehovah, to make counsel and not from me; and to cover a covering, and not my spirit so as to add sin upon sin:

Jeremiah 5:17

And it ate thy harvest and thy bread, that thy sons and thy daughters shall eat: it shall eat thy sheep and thine oxen: it shall eat thy vine and thy fig-trees: it shall break down thy fortified cities which thou trustedst in them, with the sword.

Ezekiel 15:2-7

Son of man, what is the tree of the vine above every tree, the vine-shoot which was upon the trees of the forest.

Ezekiel 20:47

And say to the forest of the south, Hear thou the word of Jehovah; thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold me kindling a fire in thee, and it consumed in thee every green tree and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north were burned in it.

Micah 5:11

And I cut off the cities of thy land, and I battled down all thy fortresses:

Malachi 4:1

For behold, the day coming, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all doing injustice were straw: and the day coming burnt them, said Jehovah of armies, that it shall not leave to them root and branch.

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