Parallel Verses
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Interlinear
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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 streets are waste, there walketh no man therein; the covenant is broken, the cities are despised; they are not regarded, 9 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. 10 And therefore sayeth the LORD, "I will up; now will I get up, now will I arise.
Cross References
Isaiah 35:2
She shall flourish pleasantly, and be joyful, and ever be giving thanks more and more. For the glory of Lebanon, the beauty of Carmel and Sharon shall be given her. These shall know the honour of the LORD, and the majesty of our God.
Isaiah 65:10
Sharon shall be a sheepfold, and the valley of Achor shall give the stalling for the cattle of my people, that fear me.
Nahum 1:4
When he reproveth the sea, he drieth it up, and turneth all the floods to dry land. Bashan is desolate, Carmel and the pleasure of Lebanon wasteth away.
Deuteronomy 3:4
And we took all his cities the same season, for there was not a city which we took not from them; even three score cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Song of Songs 2:1
I am the flower of the field, and lilies of the valleys.
Isaiah 1:7-8
Your land lieth waste, your cities are burnt up, your enemies devour your land, and ye must be fain to stand, and look upon it: and it is desolate, as it were with enemies in a battle.
Isaiah 2:13
upon all high and stout Cedar trees of Lebanon, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
Isaiah 3:26
At that time shall their gates mourn and complain, and they shall sit as desolate folk upon the earth.
Isaiah 14:8
Yea even the fir trees and Cedars of Lebanon rejoice at thy fall, saying, 'Now that thou art laid down, there come no more up to destroy us.'
Isaiah 24:1
Behold, the LORD shall waste and plague the world, he shall make the face of the earth desolate, and scatter abroad the inhabiters thereof.
Isaiah 24:4-6
The earth shall be heavy and decay: The face of the earth shall perish and fall away, the proud people of the world shall come to naught.
Isaiah 24:19-20
The earth shall give a great crack, it shall have a sore ruin, and take a horrible fall.
Isaiah 37:24
Thou with thy servants hast blasphemed the LORD and thus holdest thou of thyself, I cover the high mountains, and sides of Lebanon with my horsemen. And there will I cut down the high Cedar trees and the fairest Fir trees. I will up into the height of it, and into the chiefest of his timber woods.
Jeremiah 4:20-26
They cry murder upon murder; the whole land shall perish. Immediately my tents were destroyed, and my hangings, in the twinkling of an eye.
Jeremiah 50:19
And will bring Israel again to his pleasant pasture, that he may feed upon Carmel and Bashan, and be satisfied upon the mount of Ephraim and Gilead.
Micah 7:14
Therefore feed thy people with thy rod; the flock of thine heritage which dwell desolate in the wood: that they may be fed upon the mount of Carmel, Bashan and Gilead as afore time.
Zechariah 11:1-3
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume thy cedar trees.