Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Your heart will meditate on terror:
“Where is he who counts?
Where is he who weighs?
Where is he who counts the towers?”

King James Version

Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?

Holman Bible

Your mind will meditate on the past terror:
“Where is the accountant?
Where is the tribute collector?
Where is the one who spied out our defenses?”

International Standard Version

Your mind will ponder at that time of terror: "Where is the king's accountant? Where is the one who weighed the revenue? Where is the officer who supervises the towers?'

A Conservative Version

Thy heart shall muse on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed [the tribute]? Where is he who counted the towers?

American Standard Version

Thy heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he that counted, where is he that weighed the tribute ? where is he that counted the towers?

Amplified


Your mind will meditate on the terror [asking]:
“Where is he who counts?
Where is he who weighs [the tribute]?
Where is he who counts the towers?”

Bible in Basic English

Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?

Darby Translation

Thy heart shall meditate on terror: Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?

Julia Smith Translation

Thy heart shall meditate terror. Where the scribe? where the weigher? where he writing the towers?

King James 2000

Your heart shall meditate the terror. Where is the scribe? where is the one who weighs? where is he that counts the towers?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Your {mind} will meditate [on the] terror: "Where [is the] one who counted? Where [is the] one who weighed out? Where [is the] one who counted the towers?"

Modern King James verseion

Your heart shall dwell on terror. Where is the scribe? Where is the one weighing? Where is the one counting the towers?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and his heart shall delight in the fear of God. What shall then become of the scribe? Of the receiver of our money? What of him that taxed our fair houses?

NET Bible

Your mind will recall the terror you experienced, and you will ask yourselves, "Where is the scribe? Where is the one who weighs the money? Where is the one who counts the towers?"

New Heart English Bible

Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?

The Emphasized Bible

Thy heart, may murmur in terror, - Where is the scribe? Where - the receiver? Where - he that maketh a list of the towers?

Webster

Thy heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?

World English Bible

Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?

Youngs Literal Translation

Thy heart doth meditate terror, Where is he who is counting? Where is he who is weighing? Where is he who is counting the towers?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אמה אימה 
'eymah 
Usage: 17

where is the receiver
שׁקל 
Shaqal 
Usage: 22

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

The Glorious Future

17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off. 18 Your heart will meditate on terror:
“Where is he who counts?
Where is he who weighs?
Where is he who counts the towers?”
19 Thou shalt not see that fierce people, a people of a darker speech than thou can perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou can not understand.



Cross References

2 Kings 18:14

And Hezekiah, king of Judah, sent unto the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have sinned; return from me; that which thou puttest on me I will bear. Then the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah, king of Judah, three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the philosopher of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Genesis 23:16

Then Abraham hearkened unto Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

1 Samuel 25:33-36

and blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou who hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood and from avenging myself with my own hand.

1 Samuel 30:6

And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him because the soul of all the people was bitter, each one for his sons and for his daughters; but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

2 Kings 15:19

And Pul, the king of Assyria, came against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

2 Kings 18:31

Do not hearken unto Hezekiah, for thus saith the king of Assyria, Give me a blessing and come out to me, and then each one of you shall eat of their own vine and of their own fig tree, and each one shall drink the waters of their own well,

Psalm 31:7-8

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy, for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities

Psalm 31:22

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes; nevertheless thou hast heard the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

Psalm 71:20

Thou who hast caused me to see great and sore troubles, shalt return and quicken me and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Isaiah 10:16-19

Therefore shall the Lord, the LORD of the hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

Isaiah 17:14

And behold at eveningtide trouble, and before the morning she is not. This is the portion of them that tread on us and the lot of them that spoil us.

Isaiah 38:9-22

The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and was recovered of his sickness:

2 Corinthians 1:8-10

Because, brothers, we would not have you ignore our tribulation which was done unto us in Asia, that we were burdened beyond our strength, in such a manner that we despaired even of life:

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra, persecutions I have endured, and the Lord delivered me out of them all.

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