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Bible in Basic English
The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.
New American Standard Bible
And Bashan and Carmel
King James Version
The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
Holman Bible
Lebanon is ashamed and decayed.
Sharon is like a desert;
Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
International Standard Version
The land mourns and wastes away; Lebanon feels ashamed and withers. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves."
A Conservative Version
The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their leaves].
American Standard Version
The land mourneth and languisheth; Lebanon is confounded and withereth away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves .
Amplified
The land mourns and dries out,
Lebanon is shamed and [its lush foliage] withers;
And
Darby Translation
The land mourneth, it languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed, is withered; the Sharon is become as a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped.
Julia Smith Translation
The earth mourning, languished: Lebanon being ashamed, pined away: Sharon was as a sterile region, and Bashan was shaken, and Carmel.
King James 2000
The earth mourns and languishes: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] land mourns; it languishes. Lebanon feels abashed; it withers. Sharon is like the desert, and Bashan and Carmel {are losing their leaves}.
Modern King James verseion
The earth mourns and droops. Lebanon is ashamed; Sharon withers like a wilderness; Bashan and Carmel are shaken out.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
the desolate earth is in heaviness. Lebanon taketh it but for a sport, that it is hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness: Bashan and Carmel are turned upside down.
NET Bible
The land dries up and withers away; the forest of Lebanon shrivels up and decays. Sharon is like the desert; Bashan and Carmel are parched.
New Heart English Bible
The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
The Emphasized Bible
The land mourneth, languisheth, Lebanon, displayeth shame, is withered, - Sharon, hath become, as the waste plain, And Bashan and Carmel are shaking off their leaves.
Webster
The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
World English Bible
The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
Youngs Literal Translation
Mourned, languished hath the land, Confounded hath been Lebanon, Withered hath been Sharon as a wilderness, And shaking are Bashan and Carmel.
Themes
Bashan » Fertility and productiveness of
Mountains » Names of » Carmel, on the seacoast of palestine
Sharon » The maritime slope of palestine north of the city of joppa » Roses and beauty of
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 33:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh's Judgment And Help
8 The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man. 9 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling. 10 Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.
Cross References
Isaiah 35:2
It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it; the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the Lord, the power of our God.
Isaiah 65:10
And Sharon will be a grass-land for the flocks, and the valley of Achor a resting-place for the herds: for my people whose hearts have been turned back to me.
Nahum 1:4
He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.
Deuteronomy 3:4
At that time we took all his towns; there was not one town of the sixty towns, all the country of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which we did not take.
Song of Songs 2:1
I am a rose of Sharon, a flower of the valleys.
Isaiah 1:7-8
Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.
Isaiah 2:13
And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan;
Isaiah 3:26
And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.
Isaiah 14:8
Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.
Isaiah 24:1
See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.
Isaiah 24:4-6
The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.
Isaiah 24:19-20
The earth is completely broken, it is parted in two, it is violently moved.
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.
Jeremiah 4:20-26
News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste.
Jeremiah 50:19
And I will make Israel come back to his resting-place, and he will get his food on Carmel and Bashan, and have his desire in full measure on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
Micah 7:14
Keep your people safe with your rod, the flock of your heritage, living by themselves in the woods in the middle of Carmel: let them get their food in Bashan and Gilead as in the past.
Zechariah 11:1-3
Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars.