Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

The earth mourns and languishes; the world droops and languishes; the proud people of the earth droop.

New American Standard Bible

The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away.

King James Version

The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

Holman Bible

The earth mourns and withers;
the world wastes away and withers;
the exalted people of the earth waste away.

International Standard Version

"The earth dries up and withers; the world languishes and fades away; heaven fades away, along with the earth.

A Conservative Version

The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.

American Standard Version

The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.

Amplified

The earth dries up and crumbles away, the world dries out and crumbles away, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away.

Bible in Basic English

The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

Darby Translation

The land mourneth, it fadeth away; the world languisheth, it fadeth away: the haughty people of the land do languish.

Julia Smith Translation

The earth mourning, fell away: the habitable globe languishing, fell away: the heights of the people of the land languished,

King James 2000

The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The earth dries up, it withers; [the] world languishes, it withers. The elevated of the people of the earth languish,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The earth shall be heavy and decay: The face of the earth shall perish and fall away, the proud people of the world shall come to naught.

NET Bible

The earth dries up and withers, the world shrivels up and withers; the prominent people of the earth fade away.

New Heart English Bible

The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.

The Emphasized Bible

Mourneth, fadeth, the earth Languisheth, fadeth, the world, - Languished have the lofty of the people of the earth.

Webster

The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

World English Bible

The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.

Youngs Literal Translation

Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they -- the high place of the people of the land.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

H56
אבל 
'abal 
Usage: 39

the world
תּבל 
Tebel 
Usage: 36

אמל 
'amal 
Usage: 16

the haughty
מרום 
Marowm 
Usage: 54

עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

of the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

Context Readings

The Judgment On The Earth

3 The land shall be completely emptied, and utterly stripped; for Jehovah has spoken this Word. 4 The earth mourns and languishes; the world droops and languishes; the proud people of the earth droop. 5 And the land is defiled under its people; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and have broken the everlasting covenant.

Cross References

Isaiah 33:9

The earth mourns and droops. Lebanon is ashamed; Sharon withers like a wilderness; Bashan and Carmel are shaken out.

Hosea 4:3

Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone who dwells in it shall droop, with the beasts of the field and with the birds of the heavens. Yes, the fish of the sea shall also be taken away.

Isaiah 2:11-12

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the pride of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 3:26

And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall sit deserted on the ground.

Isaiah 28:1

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower which is on the head of the fat valleys of those who are overcome with wine!

Isaiah 64:6

But we are all as the unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Jeremiah 4:28

The earth shall mourn for this, and the heavens above shall be black, because I have spoken, I have purposed, and will not repent, nor will I turn back from it.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long shall the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither from the evil of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds have been destroyed, because they said, He shall not see our last end.

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