Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Thorns and briers shall come up on the land of my people, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
New American Standard Bible
Yea, for all the joyful houses and for the
King James Version
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
Holman Bible
growing thorns and briers,
indeed, for every joyous house in the joyful city.
International Standard Version
and over the land of my people overgrown with thorns and briers yes, over all the houses of merriment and over this city of revelry.
American Standard Version
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Amplified
For the land of my people growing over with thorns and briars—
Yes, [mourn] for all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Bible in Basic English
And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.
Darby Translation
Upon the land of my people shall come up thistles and briars, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Julia Smith Translation
Upon the land of my people shall come up the thorn of the sharp point; so upon the houses of rejoicing of the exulting city.
King James 2000
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the joyous houses in the joyous city:
Lexham Expanded Bible
over the soil of my people. It goes up [in] thorns [and] briers, indeed over all of [the] houses of joy [in the] jubilant city.
Modern King James verseion
On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My people's field shall bring thorns and thistles, for in every house is voluptuousness; and in the cities, willfulness.
NET Bible
Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry.
New Heart English Bible
Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
The Emphasized Bible
Over the soil of my people, thorns and briars shall grow, - Yea over all houses of joy, thou city exultant!
Webster
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; also, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
World English Bible
Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Youngs Literal Translation
Over the ground of my people thorn -- brier goeth up, Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city,
Interlinear
`alah
Bayith
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 32:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Against The Carefree Women
12 They shall beat upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13 Thorns and briers shall come up on the land of my people, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city. 14 For the palace shall be forsaken. The populous city shall be deserted. The hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,
Cross References
Isaiah 22:2
O thou that are full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town. Thy slain are not slain with the sword, nor are they dead in battle.
Isaiah 7:23
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver coins, shall be for briers and thorns.
Isaiah 34:13
And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it. And it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
Hosea 9:6
For, lo, they have gone away from destruction, [yet] Egypt shall gather them up. Memphis shall bury them. Their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them. Thorns shall be in their tents.
Psalm 107:34
a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.
Isaiah 5:6
And I will lay it waste. It shall not be pruned nor hoed, but there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Isaiah 6:11
Then I said, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,
Isaiah 22:12-13
And in that day the Lord, LORD of hosts, called for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.
Jeremiah 39:8
And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
Hosea 10:8
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall on us.
Revelation 18:7-8
In an amount she glorified herself and lived wantonly, give her so much torment and grief, because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will, no, not see grief.