Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine;

New American Standard Bible

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

King James Version

They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

Holman Bible

Beat your breasts in mourning
for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines,

International Standard Version

For people will be beating their breasts in mourning over the pleasant fields, over the fruitful vines,

A Conservative Version

They shall beat upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

American Standard Version

They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

Amplified


Beat your breasts [in mourning] for the beautiful fields, for the fruitful vine,

Darby Translation

They shall smite on the breasts in lamentation for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vineyards.

Julia Smith Translation

Smiting upon the breasts for the fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.

King James 2000

Beat upon your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

Lexham Expanded Bible

mourning over breasts, over fields of delight, over [the] fruitful vine,

Modern King James verseion

They shall mourn for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For as the infants weep when their mothers' teats are dried, so shall you weep for your fair fields and fruitful vineyards.

NET Bible

Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine!

New Heart English Bible

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

The Emphasized Bible

Upon your breasts, continue smiting: For desirable fields, For fruitful vine.

Webster

They shall lament for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

World English Bible

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

Youngs Literal Translation

For breasts they are lamenting, For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ספד 
Caphad 
Usage: 30

for the teats
שׁד שׁד 
Shad 
Usage: 24

חמד 
Chemed 
Usage: 6

שׂדי שׂדה 
Sadeh 
Usage: 333

פּרה 
Parah 
Usage: 29

References

Context Readings

Against The Carefree Women

11 Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief. 12 Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine; 13 And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:7-8

For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;

Deuteronomy 11:11-12

But the land where you are going is a land of hills and valleys, drinking in the rain of heaven:

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

Lamentations 4:3-4

Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.

Ezekiel 20:6

In that day I gave my oath to take them out of the land of Egypt into a land which I had been searching out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands:

Ezekiel 20:15

And further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land, that I would not take them into the land which I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands;

Nahum 2:7

And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.

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