Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Over the ground of my people thorn -- brier goeth up, Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city,

New American Standard Bible

For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up;
Yea, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.

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

for the ground of my people
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;

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Upon the land
אדמה 
'adamah 
Usage: 225

of my people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

shall come up
עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

קץ קוץ 
Qowts 
Usage: 12

and briers
שׁמיר 
Shamiyr 
Usage: 11

בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

of joy
משׂושׂ 
Masows 
Usage: 17

in the joyous
עלּיז 
`alliyz 
Usage: 7

Context Readings

Against The Carefree Women

12 For breasts they are lamenting, For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine. 13 Over the ground of my people thorn -- brier goeth up, Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city, 14 Surely the palace hath been left, The multitude of the city forsaken, Fort and watch-tower hath been for dens unto the age, A joy of wild asses -- a pasture of herds;

Cross References

Isaiah 22:2

Full of stirs -- a noisy city -- an exulting city, Thy pierced are not pierced of the sword, Nor dead in battle.

Isaiah 7:23

And it hath come to pass, in that day, Every place where there are a thousand vines, At a thousand silverlings, Is for briers and for thorns.

Isaiah 34:13

And gone up her palaces have thorns, Nettle and bramble are in her fortresses, And it hath been a habitation of dragons, A court for daughters of an ostrich.

Hosea 9:6

For, lo, they have gone because of destruction, Egypt gathereth them, Moph burieth them, The desirable things of their silver, Nettles possess them -- a thorn is in their tents.

Psalm 107:34

A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

Isaiah 5:6

And I make it a waste, It is not pruned, nor arranged, And gone up have brier and thorn, And on the thick clouds I lay a charge, From raining upon it rain.

Isaiah 6:11

And I say, 'Till when, O Lord?' And He saith, 'Surely till cities have been wasted without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the ground be wasted -- a desolation,

Isaiah 22:12-13

And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,

Jeremiah 39:8

And the house of the king, and the house of the people, have the Chaldeans burnt with fire, and the walls of Jerusalem they have broken down.

Hosea 10:8

And destroyed have been high places of Aven, the sin of Israel. Thorn and bramble go up on their altars, And they have said to hills, Cover us, And to heights, Fall upon us.

Revelation 18:7-8

'As much as she did glorify herself and did revel, so much torment and sorrow give to her, because in her heart she saith, I sit a queen, and a widow I am not, and sorrow I shall not see;

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