Parallel Verses

King James 2000

The city of confusion 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.

American Standard 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.

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 city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.


Cross References

Genesis 11:9

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confuse the language of all the earth: and from there did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

2 Kings 25:4

And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

2 Kings 25:9-10

And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burned he with fire.

Isaiah 23:1

The burden concerning Tyre. Wail, you 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 stricken with destruction.

Isaiah 25:2

For you have 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

Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and strip its branches.

Isaiah 32:14

Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;

Isaiah 34:11

But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

Isaiah 34:13-15

And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses: and it shall be a habitation of jackals, and a court for ostriches.

Jeremiah 9:25-26

Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will punish all them who are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

Jeremiah 39:4

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

Jeremiah 39:8

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

Jeremiah 52:7

Then the city wall was broken through, 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 by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.

Jeremiah 52:13-14

And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

Micah 2:13

He who breaks open has come up before them: they have broken out, and have passed through the gate, and have gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, the LORD at their head.

Micah 3:12

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

Matthew 23:34-35

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

Luke 19:43

For the days shall come upon you, that your enemies shall cast a bank about you, and surround you, and hem you in on every side,

Luke 21:24

And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all 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 ascends out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

Revelation 17:5-6

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

Revelation 18:2

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of demons, and the haunt of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

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