Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

I -- I have known thee in a wilderness, In a land of droughts.

New American Standard Bible

I cared for you in the wilderness,
In the land of drought.

King James Version

I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

Holman Bible

I knew you in the wilderness,
in the land of drought.

International Standard Version

I took care of you in the wilderness, in a waterless land.

A Conservative Version

I knew thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

American Standard Version

I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

Amplified


I knew and regarded you and cared for you in the wilderness,
In the land of drought.

Bible in Basic English

I had knowledge of you in the waste land where no water was.

Darby Translation

I knew thee in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

Julia Smith Translation

I knew thee in the desert, in the land of thirst

King James 2000

I did know you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

Lexham Expanded Bible

I fed you in the desert, in the land of drought.

Modern King James verseion

I have known you in the wilderness, in the land of great dryness.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I took diligent heed of thee in the wilderness, that dry land.

NET Bible

I cared for you in the wilderness, in the dry desert where no water was.

New Heart English Bible

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

The Emphasized Bible

I, tended thee in the desert, - in a land parched with drought:

Webster

I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drouth.

World English Bible

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
thee in the wilderness
מדבּר 
Midbar 
Usage: 271

in the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

Context Readings

Death And Resurrection

4 And I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, And a God besides Me thou dost not know, And a Saviour -- there is none save Me. 5 I -- I have known thee in a wilderness, In a land of droughts. 6 According to their feedings they are satiated, They have been satiated, And their heart is lifted up, Therefore they have forgotten Me,

Cross References

Deuteronomy 2:7

for Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hands; He hath known thy walking in this great wilderness these forty years; Jehovah thy God is with thee; thou hast not lacked anything.

Deuteronomy 8:15

who is causing thee to go in the great and the terrible wilderness -- burning serpent, and scorpion, and thirst -- where there is no water; who is bringing out to thee waters from the flinty rock;

Deuteronomy 32:10

He findeth him in a land -- a desert, And in a void -- a howling wilderness, He turneth him round -- He causeth him to understand -- He keepeth him as the apple of His eye.

Exodus 2:25

and God seeth the sons of Israel, and God knoweth.

Psalm 1:6

For Jehovah is knowing the way of the righteous, And the way of the wicked is lost!

Psalm 31:7

I rejoice, and am glad in Thy kindness, In that Thou hast seen mine affliction, Thou hast known in adversities my soul.

Psalm 63:1

A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou art my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters.

Psalm 142:3

When my spirit hath been feeble in me, Then Thou hast known my path; In the way in which I walk, They have hid a snare for me.

Jeremiah 2:2

'Go, and thou hast called in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah: I have remembered for thee The kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, Thy going after Me in a wilderness, in a land not sown.

Jeremiah 2:6

And have not said, Where is Jehovah, Who bringeth us up out of the land of Egypt, Who leadeth us in a wilderness, In a land of deserts and pits, In a dry land, and of death-shade, In a land -- none hath passed through it, Nor dwelt hath man there?'

Nahum 1:7

Good is Jehovah for a strong place in a day of distress. And He knoweth those trusting in Him.

1 Corinthians 8:3

and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.

Galatians 4:9

and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

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