Parallel Verses

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,

Bible in Basic English

Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile 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 Tremble you women who are at ease. Be troubled you complacent ones. Undress and put sackcloth on your waist, 12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
13 For the land of my people where thorns and briars will grow for they are on the delightful houses and the exultant city.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:7-8

Jehovah your God will lead you into a good land. It is a land with rivers that do not dry up. Springs and underground streams flow through the valleys and the hills.

Deuteronomy 11:11-12

But the land you go to possess is a land of hills and valleys. It drinks water from the rain from the clouds in the sky.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail from weeping. I am in torment. My heart is pulled out of me to the ground because my people are destroyed. 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 jackals of the wasteland have full breasts and give milk to their young ones. The daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the wasteland.

Ezekiel 20:6

It was then that I promised to take them out of Egypt and lead them to a land I had chosen for them, a rich and fertile land, the finest land of all.

Ezekiel 20:15

I also swore an oath to them in the desert. I swore that I would not bring them into the land that I had promised to give them. This land is the most beautiful land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Nahum 2:7

It is decreed: she is uncovered! She is carried away and her handmaids moan like the sound of doves, beating on their chests.

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