Parallel Verses

NET Bible

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

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.

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 live in peaceful settlements, in secure homes, and in safe, quiet places. 19 Even if the forest is destroyed and the city is annihilated, 20 you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

Cross References

Isaiah 28:17

I will make justice the measuring line, fairness the plumb line; hail will sweep away the unreliable refuge, the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place.

Isaiah 26:5

Indeed, the Lord knocks down those who live in a high place, he brings down an elevated town; he brings it down to the ground, he throws it down to the dust.

Isaiah 28:2

Look, the sovereign master sends a strong, powerful one. With the force of a hailstorm or a destructive windstorm, with the might of a driving, torrential rainstorm, he will knock that crown to the ground with his hand.

Isaiah 30:30

The Lord will give a mighty shout and intervene in power, with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.

Zechariah 11:2

Howl, fir tree, because the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees have been destroyed. Howl, oaks of Bashan, because the impenetrable forest has fallen.

Exodus 9:18-26

I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

Isaiah 10:19

There will be so few trees left in his forest, a child will be able to count them.

Isaiah 14:22-23

"I will rise up against them," says the Lord who commands armies. "I will blot out all remembrance of Babylon and destroy all her people, including the offspring she produces," says the Lord.

Isaiah 24:10

The ruined town is shattered; all of the houses are shut up tight.

Isaiah 25:4

For you are a protector for the poor, a protector for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the rainstorm, a shade from the heat. Though the breath of tyrants is like a winter rainstorm,

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the desert. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.

Isaiah 37:24

Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master, 'With my many chariots I climbed up the high mountains, the slopes of Lebanon. I cut down its tall cedars and its best evergreens. I invaded its most remote regions, its thickest woods.

Ezekiel 13:11-13

Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones will fall and a violent wind will break out.

Nahum 1:1

The oracle against Nineveh; the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:

Nahum 1:8

But with an overwhelming flood he will make a complete end of Nineveh; he will drive his enemies into darkness.

Nahum 2:10-13

Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Their hearts faint, their knees tremble, each stomach churns, each face turns pale!

Matthew 7:25

The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock.

Revelation 8:7

The first angel blew his trumpet, and there was hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was thrown at the earth so that a third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

Revelation 18:21

Then one powerful angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone, threw it into the sea, and said, "With this kind of sudden violent force Babylon the great city will be thrown down and it will never be found again!

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