Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
devastation and destruction,
famine and sword.
Who will grieve for you?
How can I
New American Standard Bible
Who will mourn for you?
The
How shall I comfort you?
King James Version
These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
International Standard Version
"These twin things have come upon you (who can feel sorry for you?): ruin and destruction, famine and the sword who can console you?
A Conservative Version
These two things have befallen thee (Who shall bemoan thee?): Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword. How shall I comfort thee?
American Standard Version
These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?
Amplified
These two tragedies have befallen you;
Who will show sympathy for you and mourn with you?
The desolation and destruction [on the land and city], famine and sword [on the inhabitants];
How shall I comfort you?
Bible in Basic English
These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?
Darby Translation
These two things are come unto thee; who will bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and famine and sword: how shall I comfort thee?
Julia Smith Translation
These two encountering thee; who shall be moved for thee? desolation and breaking, and famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
King James 2000
These two things have come unto you; who shall be sorry for you? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Two [things] here [have] happened to you--who will {show sympathy} for you?-- devastation and destruction, famine and sword--who will comfort you?
Modern King James verseion
These two things have come to you, who shall be sorry for you? Desolation, and ruin, and the famine, and the sword. By whom shall I comfort you?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Both these things are happened unto thee, but who is sorry for it? Yea, destruction, wasting, hunger and sword: but who hath comforted thee?
NET Bible
These double disasters confronted you. But who feels sorry for you? Destruction and devastation, famine and sword. But who consoles you?
New Heart English Bible
These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?
The Emphasized Bible
Twain, are the things befalling thee, Who will lament for thee? Wasting and destruction and f famine and sword By whom shall I comfort thee?
Webster
These two things have come to thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
World English Bible
These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?
Youngs Literal Translation
These two are meeting thee, who is moved for thee? Spoiling and destruction -- Famine and sword, who -- I comfort thee?
Interlinear
Sh@nayim
Nuwd
Shod
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 51:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Wake Up, Jerusalem
18
among all the children she has raised;
there is no one to take hold of her hand
among all the offspring she has brought up.
devastation and destruction,
famine and sword.
Who will grieve for you?
How can I
they lie at the head of every street
like an antelope in a net.
They are full of the Lord’s fury,
the rebuke of your God.
Cross References
Isaiah 47:9
suddenly, in one day:
loss of children and widowhood.
They will happen to you in their entirety,
in spite of your many sorceries
and the potency of your spells.
Amos 7:2
When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land,
Job 2:11
Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite,
Job 42:11
All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances
Psalm 69:20
and I am in despair.
I waited for sympathy,
but there was none;
for comforters, but found no one.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun.
Isaiah 14:30
and the impoverished will lie down in safety,
but I will kill your root with hunger,
and your remnant will be slain.
Isaiah 22:4
“Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly!
Do not try to comfort me
about the destruction of my dear
Isaiah 61:2
and the day of our God’s vengeance;
to comfort
Jeremiah 9:17-21
This is what the Lord of Hosts says:
send for the skillful women.
Lamentations 1:9
ט Tet
She never considered her end.
Her downfall was astonishing;
there was no one to comfort her.
Lord, look on my affliction,
for the enemy triumphs!
Lamentations 1:12
ל Lamed
Look and see!
Is there any pain like mine,
which was dealt out to me,
which the Lord made me suffer
on the day of His burning anger?
Lamentations 1:16-17
ע Ayin
my eyes flow
For there is no one nearby to comfort me,
no one to keep me alive.
My children are desolate
because the enemy has prevailed.
Ezekiel 14:21
“For this is what the Lord God says: How much worse will it be when I send My four
2 Corinthians 7:6-7
But God, who comforts the humble,
2 Corinthians 7:13
For this reason we have been comforted.
In addition to our comfort, we rejoiced even more over the joy Titus
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved