Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

They bend, they are bowed down together; they could not deliver the burden, and themselves are gone into captivity.

New American Standard Bible

They stooped over, they have bowed down together;
They could not rescue the burden,
But have themselves gone into captivity.

King James Version

They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

Holman Bible

The gods cower; they crouch together;
they are not able to rescue the burden,
but they themselves go into captivity.

International Standard Version

They stoop, they bow down together, and they are not able to rescue the burden, but they themselves go off into captivity.

A Conservative Version

They stoop, they bow down together. They could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

American Standard Version

They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

Amplified


They stooped over, they have bowed down together;
They could not rescue the burden [of their own idols],
But have themselves gone into captivity.

Bible in Basic English

They are bent down, they are falling together: they were not able to keep their images safe, but they themselves have been taken prisoner.

Julia Smith Translation

They bowed down, they bent together; they were not able to deliver the burden and their soul went into captivity.

King James 2000

They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but are themselves gone into captivity.

Lexham Expanded Bible

They stoop; they bow down together. They are not able to save [the] burden, but {they themselves go} in captivity.

Modern King James verseion

They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but they themselves have gone into captivity.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

They are sunk down, and fallen together; for they may not ease them of their burden, therefore must they go into captivity.

NET Bible

Together they bend low and kneel down; they are unable to rescue the images; they themselves head off into captivity.

New Heart English Bible

They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but they have gone into captivity.

The Emphasized Bible

They have cowered they have crouched at once, And they cannot rescue the burden, - But their own soul, into captivity, hath departed.

Webster

They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves have gone into captivity.

World English Bible

They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

Youngs Literal Translation

They have stooped, they have bowed together, They have not been able to deliver the burden, And themselves into captivity have gone.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
קרס 
Qarac 
Usage: 2

כּרע 
Kara` 
Usage: 36

יחד 
Yachad 
Usage: 141

יכול יכל 
Yakol 
Usage: 194

not deliver
מלט 
Malat 
Usage: 95

the burden
משּׂא 
Massa' 
Usage: 65

נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

הלך 
Halak 
go, walk, come, ...away, ...along,
Usage: 1545

References

Hastings

Smith

Context Readings

Babylon's Idols

1 Bel is bowed down, Nebo bendeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things ye carried are laid on, a burden to the weary beast. 2 They bend, they are bowed down together; they could not deliver the burden, and themselves are gone into captivity. 3 Hearken unto me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, ye who have been borne from the belly, who have been carried from the womb:

Cross References

Judges 18:17-18

and the five men who had gone to spy out the land went up, and entered and took the graven image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

2 Samuel 5:21

And they left their images there, and David and his men took them away.

Jeremiah 48:7

For because thou hast confided in thy works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken, and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

Judges 18:24

And he said, "You take my gods which I made, and the priest, and go away, and what have I left? How then do you ask me, 'What ails you?'"

Jeremiah 43:12-13

And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive; and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.

Isaiah 36:18-19

Let not Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

Isaiah 37:12

Have the gods of the nations which my fathers have destroyed delivered them, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Thelassar?

Isaiah 37:19

and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have destroyed them.

Isaiah 44:17

And with the remainder thereof he maketh a god, his graven image; he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me, for thou art my god.

Isaiah 45:20

Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

Hosea 10:5-6

The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calf of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the idolatrous priests thereof shall tremble for it, for its glory, because it is departed from it.

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