Parallel Verses

World English Bible

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

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.

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 careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist. 12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13 Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:7-8

For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;

Deuteronomy 11:11-12

but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinks water of the rain of the sky,

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 4:3-4

Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20:6

in that day I swore to them, to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.

Ezekiel 20:15

Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

Nahum 2:7

It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

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