Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My people's field shall bring thorns and thistles, for in every house is voluptuousness; and in the cities, willfulness.
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.
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.
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;
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
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Bayith
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 32:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Against The Carefree Women
12 For as the infants weep when their mothers' teats are dried, so shall you weep for your fair fields and fruitful vineyards. 13 My people's field shall bring thorns and thistles, for in every house is voluptuousness; and in the cities, willfulness. 14 The palaces also shall be broken, and the greatly occupied cities desolate. The towers and bulwarks shall be become dens forevermore, the pleasure of Mules shall be turned to pasture for sheep:
Cross References
Isaiah 22:2
O thou city of miracles, seditious and willful? Thy slain men are neither killed with sword, nor dead in battle.
Isaiah 7:23
At the same time all vineyards - though there be a thousand vines in one, and were sold for a thousand silverlings - shall be turned to briers and thorns.
Isaiah 34:13
Thorns shall grow in their palaces, nettles and thistles in their strongholds; that the dragons may have their pleasure therein, and that they may be a court for Ostriches.
Hosea 9:6
Lo, they shall get them away for the destruction. Egypt shall receive them, and Memphis shall bury them. The nettles shall overgrow their pleasant goods, and burrs shall be in their tabernacles.
Psalm 107:34
A fruitful land maketh he barren, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Isaiah 5:6
I will lay it waste, that it shall neither be twisted nor cut, but bear thorns and briers. I will also forbid the clouds, that they shall not rain upon it.
Isaiah 6:11
Then spake I, "LORD, how long?" And he answered, "Until the cities be utterly without inhabiters, and the houses without men, till the land be also desolate, and lie unbuilded.
Isaiah 22:12-13
And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth.
Jeremiah 39:8
Moreover, the Chaldeans burnt up the king's palace, with the other houses of the people, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
Hosea 10:8
The high places of Aven, where Israel do sin, shall be cast down: thistles and thorns shall grow upon their altars. Then shall they say to the mountains, "Cover us," and to the hills, "Fall upon us."
Revelation 18:7-8
And as much as she glorified herself and lived wantonly, so much pour ye in for her of punishment, and sorrow, for she said in her heart, 'I sit, being a queen and am no widow and shall see no sorrow.'