Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

New American Standard Bible

The city of chaos is broken down;
Every house is shut up so that none may enter.

King James Version

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Holman Bible

The city of chaos is shattered;
every house is closed to entry.

International Standard Version

The chaotic city lies broken down; every house is closed up so that no one can enter them.

A Conservative Version

The waste city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Amplified


The city of chaos is broken down;
Every house is shut up so that no one may enter.

Bible in Basic English

The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.

Darby Translation

The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, so that none entereth in.

Julia Smith Translation

The city of desolation was broken down: every house was shut up from coining in.

King James 2000

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[The] city of emptiness is broken; every house is shut {so that no one can enter};

Modern King James verseion

The city of shame is broken down; every house is shut up so that no one may come in.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

the wicked cities shall be broken down, all houses shall be shut that no man may come in.

NET Bible

The ruined town is shattered; all of the houses are shut up tight.

New Heart English Bible

The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

The Emphasized Bible

Broken down is the city of desolation, - Shut up every house that it cannot be entered.

Webster

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may enter.

World English Bible

The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Youngs Literal Translation

It was broken down -- a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The city
קריה 
Qiryah 
Usage: 31

תּהוּ 
Tohuw 
Usage: 20

שׁבר 
Shabar 
Usage: 148

בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

is shut up
סגר 
Cagar 
Usage: 93

References

Fausets

Context Readings

The Judgment On The Earth

9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.


Cross References

Genesis 11:9

Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

2 Kings 25:4

Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

2 Kings 25:9-10

And he burnt the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.

Isaiah 23:1

The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.

Isaiah 24:12

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

Isaiah 25:2

For thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

Isaiah 32:14

For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

Isaiah 34:11

But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.

Isaiah 34:13-15

And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.

Jeremiah 9:25-26

Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will punish all them that are circumcised in their uncircumcision:

Jeremiah 39:4

And it came to pass that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the gate betwixt the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.

Jeremiah 39:8

And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 52:7

Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about;) and they went toward the Arabah.

Jeremiah 52:13-14

and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.

Micah 2:13

The breaker is gone up before them: they have broken forth and passed on to the gate, and are gone out thereat; and their king is passed on before them, and Jehovah at the head of them.

Micah 3:12

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

Matthew 23:34-35

Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:

Luke 19:43

For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

Luke 21:24

And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led captive into all the nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

Revelation 11:7-8

And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that cometh up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

Revelation 17:5-6

and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Revelation 18:2

And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird.

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