Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Desolation is left in the city
And the gate is battered to ruins.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Only desolation remains in the city;
its gate has collapsed in ruins.

International Standard Version

Desolation remains in the city whose gates lie battered into ruins.

A Conservative Version

Desolation is left in the city, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


Horrible desolation is left in the city,
And the gate is battered into ruins.

Bible in Basic English

In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.

Darby Translation

desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten, a ruin.

Julia Smith Translation

Desolation was left in the city, and the gate shall be struck in ruins.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Desolation is left in the city; [the] gate is crushed [into] a state of ruin.

Modern King James verseion

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is stricken with ruin.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Desolation shall remain in the cities, and the gates shall be smitten with destruction.

NET Bible

The city is left in ruins; the gate is reduced to rubble.

New Heart English Bible

The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

The Emphasized Bible

There is left in the city. desolation, - And to ruins, have been broken the gate.

Webster

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

World English Bible

The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

Youngs Literal Translation

Left in the city is desolation, And with wasting is the gate smitten.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
In the city
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

is left
שׁאר 
Sha'ar 
Usage: 134

שׁמּה 
Shammah 
Usage: 39

and the gate
שׁער 
Sha`ar 
Usage: 374

is smitten
כּתת 
Kathath 
Usage: 17

Verse Info

Context Readings

The Judgment On The Earth

11 In the streets they cry out for wine. Joy turns to gloom and rejoicing is banished from the earth. 12 Desolation is left in the city
And the gate is battered to ruins.
13 So will it be on the earth and among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.

Cross References

Isaiah 32:14

Because the palace has been abandoned, the populated city forsaken. Hill and watchtower have become caves forever. They will be a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. It will be a gathering place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah desolation, without inhabitant.

Lamentations 1:1

She sits alone. She was a town full of people! Once great among the nations she has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced labor!

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion are sad. No one comes to the holy meeting. All her doorways are desolate. Her priests are sighing out of sorrow. Her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates have gone down into the earth. He destroyed her locks and bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where there is no law. Her prophets have had no vision from Jehovah.

Lamentations 5:18

The mountain of Zion is a waste. So jackals go there.

Micah 1:9

Samaria's wound is incurable! It came as far as Judah. It even reached to the gate of my people, Jerusalem.

Micah 1:12

The inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because bad came down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.

Matthew 22:7

The king was angry, and sent his armies to put the evil servants to death and to destroy their town with fire.

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