Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Is this he that made the world in a manner waste, and laid the cities to the ground, which let not his prisoners go home?"

New American Standard Bible

Who made the world like a wilderness
And overthrew its cities,
Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?’

King James Version

That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

Holman Bible

who turned the world into a wilderness,
who destroyed its cities
and would not release the prisoners to return home?”

International Standard Version

who made the world like a desert, who destroyed its cities, who would not open the jails for his prisoners?'

A Conservative Version

who made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it, who did not let loose his prisoners to their home?

American Standard Version

that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?

Amplified


Who made the world like a wilderness
And overthrew its cities,
Who did not permit his prisoners to return home?’

Bible in Basic English

Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.

Darby Translation

that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that dismissed not his prisoners homewards?

Julia Smith Translation

Setting the habitable globe as a desert, and destroying its cities: for his bound opening not the house.

King James 2000

That made the world like a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

Lexham Expanded Bible

who made [the] world like the desert and destroyed its cities, [who] would not let his prisoners go home?'

Modern King James verseion

who made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; who did not open the house for his prisoners?

NET Bible

Is this the one who made the world like a desert, who ruined its cities, and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?"'

New Heart English Bible

who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who did not release his prisoners to their home?"

The Emphasized Bible

Who made the world like a desert And its cities, brake down? Its prisoners, he loosed not. Bach one to his home.

Webster

That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

World English Bible

who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"

Youngs Literal Translation

He hath made the world as a wilderness, And his cities he hath broken down, Of his bound ones he opened not the house.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

the world
תּבל 
Tebel 
Usage: 36

as a wilderness
מדבּר 
Midbar 
Usage: 271

the cities
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

פּתח 
Pathach 
Usage: 143

not the house
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

References

Context Readings

The Downfall Of The King Of Babylon

16 They that seek thee, shall narrowly look upon thee, and think in themselves, saying, "Is this the man, that brought all lands in fear, and made the kingdoms afraid? 17 Is this he that made the world in a manner waste, and laid the cities to the ground, which let not his prisoners go home?" 18 The kings of the nations lie every one in his own house with worship,

Cross References

Joel 2:3

Before him shall be a consuming fire, and behind him a burning flame. The land shall be as a garden of pleasure before him, but behind him shall it be a very waste wilderness, and there is no man, that shall escape him.

Isaiah 45:13

I shall wake him up with righteousness, and order all his ways. He shall build my city, and let out my prisoners: and that neither for gifts or rewards, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

2 Chronicles 28:8-15

And the children of Israel took prisoners of their brethren two hundred thousand wives, sons and daughters, and thereto carried away much spoil of them, and brought it to Samaria.

Ezra 1:2-4

"Thus sayeth Cyrus the king of Persia: 'The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the land and hath commanded me to build him a house at Jerusalem in Judah.

Isaiah 13:19-22

And Babylon, that glory of kingdoms and beauty of the Chaldeans' honor, shall be destroyed, even as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorra.

Isaiah 58:6

Or is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? To loose wicked bonds, and to unbind bundles of oppression? And to let the bruised go free? And that ye should break all manner yokes?

Isaiah 64:10

The cities of thy Sanctuary lie waste: Zion is a wilderness, and Jerusalem a 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.'"

Zephaniah 2:13-14

Yea, he shall stretch out his hand over the north, and destroy Assyria. As for Nineveh, he shall make it desolate, dry and waste.

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