Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the number of them that shall escape from the bows shall be minished by the mighty children of Cedar: For the LORD God of Israel hath spoken."
New American Standard Bible
and the
King James Version
And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.
Holman Bible
The remaining Kedarite archers will be few in number.” For the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.
International Standard Version
And there will be few archers, those who are descendants of Kedar, who survive, because the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken."
A Conservative Version
And the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, shall be few. For LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it.
American Standard Version
and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.
Amplified
and the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.”
Bible in Basic English
And the rest of the bowmen, the men of war of the children of Kedar, will be small in number: for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said it.
Darby Translation
and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, shall be diminished: for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken.
Julia Smith Translation
And the rest of the bows of the strong sons of Kedar shall be few: for Jehovah God of Israel spake.
King James 2000
And the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel has spoken it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the remainder of the number of the bows of the warriors of the sons of Kedar will be few." For Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken.
Modern King James verseion
and the rest of the number of archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, shall be cut down; for Jehovah, the God of Israel, has spoken.
NET Bible
Just a handful of archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be left." Indeed, the Lord God of Israel has spoken.
New Heart English Bible
and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it."
The Emphasized Bible
And, the remnant of the record of bowmen, The heroes of the sons of Kedar, shall become few; For Yahweh God of Israel, hath spoken.
Webster
And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.
World English Bible
and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it."
Youngs Literal Translation
And the remnant of the number of bow-men, The mighty of the sons of Kedar are few, For Jehovah, God of Israel, hath spoken!'
Themes
Arabians » Prophecies concerning
Archery » Practiced by the people of kedar
Isaiah » Prophecies, reproofs, and exhortations of » Arabia
The ishmaelites » Predictions respecting » Their glory, &c to be diminished
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 21:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oracle Against Arabia
16 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, "There is yet a year according to the years of a hired servant, and all the glory of the Cedar shall fail. 17 And the number of them that shall escape from the bows shall be minished by the mighty children of Cedar: For the LORD God of Israel hath spoken."
Cross References
Numbers 23:19
The Lord God is not a man, that he can lie; neither the son of a man, that he can repent! Should he say, and not do? Or should he speak, and not make it good?
Isaiah 1:20
But if ye be obstinate and rebellious, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for thus the LORD hath promised with his own mouth.
Zechariah 1:6
But did not my words and statutes, which I commanded by my servants the Prophets, touch your forefathers? Upon this, they gave answer and said, 'Like as the LORD of Hosts devised to do unto us, according to our ways and imaginations, even so hath he dealt with us.''"
Psalm 107:39
When they are minished and brought low through oppression, through any plague or trouble,
Isaiah 10:18-19
Yea, all the glory of his woods and fields shall be consumed with body and soul. As for himself, he shall be as one chased away.
Isaiah 17:4-5
At that time also shall the glory of Jacob be very poor, and his fatness lean.
Jeremiah 44:29
Take this for a token, that I will visit you in this place, sayeth the LORD, and that ye may know, how that I, without doubt, will perform my purpose upon you to punish you.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth shall perish: but my words shall abide.