Parallel Verses

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.

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.

A Conservative Version

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

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.

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 will be living in peace, in houses where there is no fear, and in quiet resting-places. 19 But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place. 20 Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.

Cross References

Isaiah 28:17

And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.

Isaiah 26:5

For he has made low those who are lifted up, all the people of the town of pride: he makes it low, crushing it down to the earth; he makes it low in the dust.

Isaiah 28:2

See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them.

Isaiah 30:30

And the Lord will send out the sound of his great voice, and they will see his arm stretched out, with the heat of his wrath, and the flame of a burning fire; with a cloud-burst, and storm, and a rain of ice.

Zechariah 11:2

Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down.

Exodus 9:18-26

Truly, tomorrow about this time I will send down an ice-storm, such as never was in Egypt from its earliest days till now.

Isaiah 10:19

And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in number, so that a child may put them down in writing.

Isaiah 14:22-23

For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son, says the Lord.

Isaiah 24:10

The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.

Isaiah 25:4

For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm.

Isaiah 27:10

For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.

Isaiah 37:24

You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.

Ezekiel 13:11-13

Say to those who put whitewash on it, There will be an overflowing shower; and you, O ice-drops, will come raining down; and it will be broken in two by the storm-wind.

Nahum 1:1

The word about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Nahum 1:8

But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

Nahum 2:10-13

Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

Matthew 7:25

And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock.

Revelation 8:7

And at the sounding of the first, a rain of ice and fire, mixed with blood, was sent on the earth: and a third part of the earth, and of the trees, and all green grass was burned up.

Revelation 18:21

And a strong angel took up a stone like the great stone with which grain is crushed, and sent it into the sea, saying, So, with a great fall, will Babylon, the great town, come to destruction, and will not be seen any more at all.

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