Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them?
Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?

King James Version

Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

Holman Bible

Did the Lord strike Israel
as He struck the one who struck Israel?
Was he killed like those killed by Him?

International Standard Version

Has the LORD struck them down, just as he struck down those who struck them? Or have they been killed, just as their killers were killed?

A Conservative Version

Has he smitten them as he smote those who smote them? Or are they slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by them?

American Standard Version

Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them?

Amplified


Like the striking by Him who has struck them, has He struck them?
Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?

Bible in Basic English

Is his punishment like the punishment of those who overcame him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put to the sword?

Darby Translation

Hath he smitten him according to the smiting of those that smote him? Is he slain according to the slaughter of those slain by him?

Julia Smith Translation

According to the blow of him striking him, he struck him; or according to the killing of those killing him, he killed.

King James 2000

Has he struck him, as he struck those that struck him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Does he strike him {as he struck down those who struck him}? Or is he killed {as those who killed him were killed}?

Modern King James verseion

Has He stricken him, as He struck those who struck Him? Is He slain according to the slaughter of the slain by Him?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Smiteth he not his smiter, as even as he is smitten himself? Destroyeth he not the murderers, as he is murdered?

NET Bible

Has the Lord struck down Israel like he did their oppressors? Has Israel been killed like their enemies?

New Heart English Bible

Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?

The Emphasized Bible

Was it, with the smiting of his smiter, that he smote him? Or as with the slaying of his slayer, was he slain?

Webster

Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

World English Bible

Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?

Youngs Literal Translation

As the smiting of his smiter hath He smitten him? As the slaying of his slain doth He slay?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נכה 
Nakah 
Usage: 501

him, as he smote
מכּה מכּה 
Makkah 
Usage: 48

נכה 
Nakah 
Usage: 501

him or is he slain
הרג 
Harag 
Usage: 166

הרג 
hereg 
Usage: 5

הרג 
Harag 
Usage: 166

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Israel Rescued

6 In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit. 7 Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them?
Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?
8 Measure by measure, by exile you contended with them; he removed them with his fierce breath in the day of the east wind.

Cross References

Isaiah 37:36-38

And the angel of the LORD went out and struck down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Isaiah 10:20-25

In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean on him who struck them, but will lean on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

Isaiah 14:22-23

"I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, descendants and posterity," declares the LORD.

Isaiah 17:3

The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, declares the LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 17:14

At evening time, behold, terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us, and the lot of those who plunder us.

Jeremiah 30:11-16

For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.

Jeremiah 50:33-34

"Thus says the LORD of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them. All who took them captive have held them fast; they refuse to let them go.

Jeremiah 50:40

As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the LORD, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.

Jeremiah 51:24

"I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the LORD.

Daniel 2:31-35

"You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening.

Nahum 1:14

The LORD has given commandment about you: "No more shall your name be perpetuated; from the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the metal image. I will make your grave, for you are vile."

Nahum 3:19

There is no easing your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil?

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