Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails,
falling down and weeping.
New American Standard Bible
Everyone is wailing,
King James Version
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
International Standard Version
In its streets they wear sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its squares everyone wails and falls down weeping.
A Conservative Version
In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth. On their housetops, and in their broad places, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.
American Standard Version
In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one waileth, weeping abundantly.
Amplified
In their streets they have wrapped themselves with sackcloth;
On their [flat] housetops and in their open squares
Everyone is wailing, dissolved in tears.
Bible in Basic English
In their streets they are covering themselves with haircloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their public places, there is crying and bitter weeping.
Darby Translation
In their streets they are girded with sackcloth; on their roofs, and in their broadways, every one howleth, melted into tears.
Julia Smith Translation
And in their places without they girded themselves with sackcloth: upon her roofs and in her streets every one shall wail, going down into weeping.
King James 2000
In their streets they shall clothe themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, everyone shall wail, weeping abundantly.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They gird themselves [with] sackcloth in its streets; on its roofs and public squares everyone wails, going down in weeping.
Modern King James verseion
In the streets they shall clothe themselves with sackcloth; on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, everyone shall howl, melting in tears.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
In their streets were they girded about with sackcloth. In all the tops of their houses and streets was there nothing, but mourning and weeping.
NET Bible
In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.
New Heart English Bible
In their streets, they dress themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.
The Emphasized Bible
In their streets, have they girded them with sackcloth, - On their housetops, and in their broadways, every one is howling - melting in tears;
Webster
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
World English Bible
In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.
Youngs Literal Translation
In its out-places they girded on sackcloth, On its pinnacles, and in its broad places, Every one howleth -- going down with weeping.
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 15:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oracle Of Judgment On Moab
2
to weep at its high places.
Moab wails on Nebo and at
Every head is shaved;
every beard is cut off.
on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails,
falling down and weeping.
their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz.
Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out,
and they tremble.
Cross References
Jonah 3:6-8
When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth,
Deuteronomy 22:8
If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
2 Samuel 3:31
David then ordered Joab and all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth,
2 Kings 6:30
When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore his clothes.
Isaiah 15:2
to weep at its high places.
Moab wails on Nebo and at
Every head is shaved;
every beard is cut off.
Isaiah 22:1
An oracle
Why have all of you gone up to the rooftops?
Isaiah 22:4
“Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly!
Do not try to comfort me
about the destruction of my dear
Jeremiah 19:13
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to the whole heavenly host
Jeremiah 48:38-39
On all the rooftops of Moab and in her public squares, everyone is mourning because I have shattered Moab like a jar no one wants.”
Matthew 11:21