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 Days shall come when Jacob shall take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and the face of the world shall be filled 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 In measure, she shall be chastised in her stalks: he stays his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

Cross References

Isaiah 37:36-38

Then the angel of the LORD went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

Isaiah 10:20-25

And it shall come to pass in that day that those who shall be left of Israel and those who shall be left of the house of Jacob shall no more again stay upon him that smote them, but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

Isaiah 14:22-23

For I will rise up upon them, saith the LORD of the hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name and remnant and son and nephew, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 17:3

The succour of Ephraim shall cease, and the kingdom from Damascus and the remnant of Syria; they shall be as the glory of the sons of Israel, saith the LORD of the hosts.

Isaiah 17:14

And behold at eveningtide trouble, and before the morning she is not. This is the portion of them that tread on us and the lot of them that spoil us.

Jeremiah 30:11-16

For I shall be with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee; and I shall make a full end in all Gentiles among whom I scattered thee, yet I will not make a full end of thee: but I will chastise thee with judgment and will not cut thee off altogether.

Jeremiah 50:33-34

Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: The sons of Israel and the sons of Judah were oppressed together; and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

Jeremiah 50:40

As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

Jeremiah 51:24

And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, said the LORD.

Daniel 2:31-35

Thou, O king, didst see and behold a great image. This image, which was very large and whose glory was very sublime, stood before thee, and its form was terrible.

Nahum 1:14

And the LORD shall give a commandment concerning thee that no one else of thy name ever be sown; out of the house of thy god I will cut off the graven image and the molten image; I will make it thy grave because thou wert vile.

Nahum 3:19

There is no cure for thy destruction; thy wound is grievous; all that hear thy story shall clap their hands over thee; for upon whom has not thy wickedness passed continually?

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