Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest, and the city shall be utterly laid low.

New American Standard Bible

And it will hail when the forest comes down,
And the city will be utterly laid low.

King James Version

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

Holman Bible

But hail will level the forest,
and the city will sink into the depths.

International Standard Version

But it will hail when the forest comes down, and the wood will be leveled completely.

American Standard Version

But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low.

Amplified


But it will hail, when the forest comes down,
And the [capital] city will fall in utter humiliation.

Bible in Basic English

But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place.

Darby Translation

And it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

Julia Smith Translation

And the hail hailing upon the forest; and the city shall be made low in lowness.

King James 2000

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be brought low in humiliation.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And it hails when {the forest comes down}, and the city will become low in humiliation.

Modern King James verseion

Though it hails, when the forest is felled, and the city laid low.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And when the hail falleth, it shall fall in the wood and in the city.

NET Bible

Even if the forest is destroyed and the city is annihilated,

New Heart English Bible

Though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.

The Emphasized Bible

But it shall hail during the felling of the forest, And in a sunken place, shall, the city, sink.

Webster

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

World English Bible

Though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.

Youngs Literal Translation

And it hath hailed in the going down of the forest, And in the valley is the city low.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּרד 
Barad 
to hail
Usage: 1

ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

on the forest
יער 
Ya`ar 
Usage: 58

and the city
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

shall be low
שׁפל 
Shaphel 
Usage: 31

References

Context Readings

Against The Carefree Women

18 And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places. 19 But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest, and the city shall be utterly laid low. 20 Blessed are ye who sow beside all waters, who send forth the feet of the ox and the donkey.



Cross References

Isaiah 28:17

And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet. And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.

Isaiah 26:5

For he has brought down those who dwell on high. The lofty city, he lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.

Isaiah 28:2

Behold, LORD has a mighty and strong one. As a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast down to the earth with the hand.

Isaiah 30:30

And LORD will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the coming down of his arm with the indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast and tempest and hailstones.

Zechariah 11:2

Wail, O fir tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the fine ones are destroyed. Wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.

Exodus 9:18-26

Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.

Isaiah 10:19

And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.

Isaiah 14:22-23

And I will rise up against them, says LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son, says LORD.

Isaiah 24:10

The waste city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Isaiah 25:4

For thou have been a stronghold to a poor man, a stronghold to a needy man in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the oppressors is as a storm against the wall.

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken like the wilderness. There the calf shall feed, and there he shall lay down, and consume the branches of it.

Isaiah 37:24

By thy servants thou have defied LORD, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. And I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir

Ezekiel 13:11-13

say to those who daub it with untempered [mortar], that it shall fall. There shall be an overflowing shower, and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall, and a stormy wind shall rend it.

Nahum 1:1

The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Nahum 1:8

But with an over running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

Nahum 2:10-13

She is empty, and void, and waste. And the heart melts, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all have grown pale.

Matthew 7:25

And the rain descended, and the torrents came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it had been founded upon the rock.

Revelation 8:7

And the first sounded, and there occurred hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth. And the third part of the earth was burnt up, and the third part of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burn

Revelation 18:21

And one mighty agent took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus in violence Babylon the great city will be thrown down, and will, no, not be found any more.

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