Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Behold, the LORD shall waste and plague the world, he shall make the face of the earth desolate, and scatter abroad the inhabiters thereof.

New American Standard Bible

Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.

King James Version

Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

Holman Bible

Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare
and making it desolate.
He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:

International Standard Version

"Watch out! The LORD is about to depopulate the land and devastate it; he will turn it upside down and scatter its inhabitants.

A Conservative Version

Behold, LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it.

American Standard Version

Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

Amplified

Behold, the Lord lays waste to the earth, devastates it, twists and distorts its face and scatters its inhabitants.

Bible in Basic English

See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.

Darby Translation

Behold, Jehovah maketh the land empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.

Julia Smith Translation

Behold, Jehovah emptying the earth and making it waste, and subverting its face, and scattering its inhabitants.

King James 2000

Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad its inhabitants.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Look! Yahweh [is] about to lay the earth waste and [is] about to devastate it, and he will twist her surface, and he will scatter her inhabitants.

Modern King James verseion

Behold, Jehovah empties the land and makes it bare, and distorts its face, and scatters its inhabitants.

NET Bible

Look, the Lord is ready to devastate the earth and leave it in ruins; he will mar its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

New Heart English Bible

Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

The Emphasized Bible

Lo! Yahweh emptying the earth and laying it waste, - And he will overturn the face thereof, And scatter them who dwell therein.

Webster

Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.

World English Bible

Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

Youngs Literal Translation

Lo, Jehovah is emptying the land, And is making it waste, And hath overturned it on its face, And hath scattered its inhabitants.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Behold, the Lord

Usage: 0

ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

בּקק 
Baqaq 
Usage: 9

and maketh it waste
בּלק 
Balaq 
Usage: 2

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

The Judgment On The Earth

1 Behold, the LORD shall waste and plague the world, he shall make the face of the earth desolate, and scatter abroad the inhabiters thereof. 2 Then shall the priest be as the people, the master as the servant, the dame like the maid, the seller like the buyer, he that lendeth upon usury, like him that borroweth upon usury, the creditor as the debtor.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:27

And the LORD shall scatter you among nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the people whither the LORD shall bring you:

Deuteronomy 28:64

And the LORD shall scatter thee among all nations from the one end of the world unto the other, and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known: even wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I have determined to scatter them throughout the world, and to make away the remembrance of them from among men,

2 Kings 21:13

And I will stretch over Jerusalem the squaring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab. And I will wipe out Jerusalem, as a man would wipe a dish, and when he hath wiped it, turneth it upside down.

Nehemiah 1:8

Yet call to remembrance the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, and saidest, 'If ye transgress, then will I scatter you abroad among the nations.

Psalm 146:9

The LORD careth for the strangers; he defendeth the fatherless and widow. As for the way of the ungodly, he turneth it upside down.

Isaiah 1:7-9

Your land lieth waste, your cities are burnt up, your enemies devour your land, and ye must be fain to stand, and look upon it: and it is desolate, as it were with enemies in a battle.

Isaiah 2:19

Men shall creep into holes of stone, and into caves of the earth, for the fear of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty: what time as he shall arise to shake the earth.

Isaiah 5:6

I will lay it waste, that it shall neither be twisted nor cut, but bear thorns and briers. I will also forbid the clouds, that they shall not rain upon it.

Isaiah 6:11-12

Then spake I, "LORD, how long?" And he answered, "Until the cities be utterly without inhabiters, and the houses without men, till the land be also desolate, and lie unbuilded.

Isaiah 7:17-25

"The LORD also shall send a time upon thee, upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, such as never came since the time that Ephraim departed from Judah, through the king of the Assyrians.

Isaiah 24:20

The earth shall stagger like a drunkard, to and fro; and be taken away like a tent. Her misdeeds shall lie so heavy upon her, that she must fall, and never rise up again.

Isaiah 27:10

The strong cities shall be desolate, and the fair cities shall be left like a wilderness. The cattle shall feed and lie there, and the sheep shall eat it up.

Isaiah 29:16

Doubtless, your destruction is, in reputation, as the potter's clay. And doth the work say of him that made it, "He made me not?" And doth an earthen vessel say of the potter, "He understandeth not?"

Isaiah 32:13-14

My people's field shall bring thorns and thistles, for in every house is voluptuousness; and in the cities, willfulness.

Isaiah 33:9

the desolate earth is in heaviness. Lebanon taketh it but for a sport, that it is hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness: Bashan and Carmel are turned upside down.

Isaiah 42:15

I will make waste both mountain and hill, and dry up every green thing that groweth thereon. I will dry up the floods of water, and drink up the rivers.

Jeremiah 4:7

For the spoiler of the Gentiles is broken up from his place, as a lion out of his den, that he may make the land waste, and destroy the cities, so that no man may dwell therein.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword among them, to persecute them, until I bring them to naught."

Jeremiah 40:15

Then said Johanan the son of Kareah unto Gedaliah in Mizphah these words, secretly, "Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, so that nobody shall know it. Wherefore will he kill thee? That all the Jews which resort unto thee, might be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?"

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a scattered flock, the Lions have dispersed them. First the king of the Assyrians devoured them, last of all this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath bruised all their bones.

Ezekiel 5:2

And burn the third part thereof in the fire in the midst of the city, and cut the other third part in pieces with a knife. As for the third part that remaineth, cast it in the wind, and then show the bare knife.

Ezekiel 5:14

Moreover, I will make thee waste and abhorred before all the Heathen that dwell about thee, and in the sight of all them that go by thee:

Ezekiel 6:6

The cities shall be desolate, the hill chapels laid waste; your altars destroyed, and broken; your gods cast down, and taken away, your temples laid even with the ground, your own works clean rooted out.

Ezekiel 12:20

And the cities that now be well occupied, shall be void, and the land desolate: that ye may know how that I am the LORD.'"

Ezekiel 24:11

Moreover, set the pot empty upon the coals, that it may be warm and the metal hot: that the filth and rustiness may be consumed.

Ezekiel 35:14

Whereunto, thus sayeth the LORD God: when the whole world is in wealth, then will I make thee waste.

Nahum 2:10

Thus must she be spoiled, emptied and clean stripped out: that their hearts may be melted away, their knees tremble, all their loins be weak, and their faces black as a pot.

Zechariah 13:7-9

"Arise, O thou sword, upon my shepherd, and upon the prince of my people, sayeth the LORD of Hosts: Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad, and so will I turn mine hand to the little ones.

Luke 21:24

And they shall fall on the edge of the sword. And they shall be led captive into all nations. And Jerusalem shall be trodden underfoot of the gentiles, until the time of the gentiles be fulfilled.

Acts 17:6

But when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the heads of the city crying, "These that trouble the world are come hither also,

James 1:1

James, the servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sendeth greeting to the twelve tribes which are scattered here and there.

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