Parallel Verses

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.

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 My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. 19 And it will hail when the forest comes down,
And the city will be utterly laid low.
20 Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.

Cross References

Isaiah 28:17

And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."

Isaiah 26:5

For he has humbled the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.

Isaiah 28:2

Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters, he casts down to the earth with his hand.

Isaiah 30:30

And the LORD will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and storm and hailstones.

Zechariah 11:2

Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled!

Exodus 9:18-26

Behold, about this time tomorrow I will cause very heavy hail to fall, such as never has been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

Isaiah 10:19

The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down.

Isaiah 14:22-23

"I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, descendants and posterity," declares the LORD.

Isaiah 24:10

The wasted city is broken down; every house is shut up so that none can enter.

Isaiah 25:4

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; there the calf grazes; there it lies down and strips its branches.

Isaiah 37:24

By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon, to cut down its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses, to come to its remotest height, its most fruitful forest.

Ezekiel 13:11-13

say to those who smear it with whitewash that it shall fall! There will be a deluge of rain, and you, O great hailstones, will fall, and a stormy wind break out.

Nahum 1:1

An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.

Nahum 1:8

But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

Nahum 2:10-13

Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale!

Matthew 7:25

And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.

Revelation 8:7

The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

Revelation 18:21

Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more;

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