Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

And thou wilt pour out for the king with oil and thou wilt increase thy perfumes, and thou wilt send thy messengers even from far off, and thou wilt be made low, even to hades.

New American Standard Bible

“You have journeyed to the king with oil
And increased your perfumes;
You have sent your envoys a great distance
And made them go down to Sheol.

King James Version

And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.

Holman Bible

You went to the king with oil
and multiplied your perfumes;
you sent your couriers far away
and sent them down even to Sheol.

International Standard Version

You went to Molech with olive oil and increased your perfumes; you sent your ambassadors far away, you sent them down even to Sheol itself!

A Conservative Version

And thou went to the king with oil, and increased thy perfumes, and sent thine ambassadors far off, and debased thyself even to Sheol.

American Standard Version

And thou wentest to the king with oil, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thine ambassadors far off, and didst debase thyself even unto Sheol.

Amplified


“You have gone to the king [of a pagan land] with oil
And increased your perfumes;
You have sent your messengers a great distance
And made them go down to Sheol (the realm of the dead).

Bible in Basic English

And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.

Darby Translation

And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst multiply thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers afar off, and didst debase thyself unto Sheol.

King James 2000

And you went to the king with ointment, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your messengers far off, and did debase yourself even unto sheol.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And you climbed down to the king with oil, and you made your perfumes numerous, and you sent your envoys {far away}, and you {sent down deep} to Sheol.

Modern King James verseion

And you went to the king with ointment, and increased your perfumes, and sent your messengers far off, and lowered yourself even to hell.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou wentest straight to kings with oil and divers ointments - that is, thou hast sent thy messengers far off, and yet art thou fallen into the pit thereby.

NET Bible

You take olive oil as tribute to your king, along with many perfumes. You send your messengers to a distant place; you go all the way to Sheol.

New Heart English Bible

You went to the king with oil, and increased your perfumes, and sent your ambassadors far off, and debased yourself even to Sheol.

The Emphasized Bible

And hast gone to the king with oil, And hast multiplied thy perfumes, - And hast sent thy messengers afar, And -- lowered thyself as far as hades!

Webster

And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even to hell.

World English Bible

You went to the king with oil, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your ambassadors far off, and debased yourself even to Sheol.

Youngs Literal Translation

And goest joyfully to the king in ointment, And dost multiply thy perfumes, And sendest thine ambassadors afar off, And humblest thyself unto Sheol.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And thou wentest
שׁוּר 
Shuwr 
Usage: 2

to the king
מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

with ointment
שׁמן 
Shemen 
Usage: 193

רקּח 
Raqquach 
Usage: 1

and didst send
שׁלח 
Shalach 
Usage: 848

ציר 
Tsiyr 
Usage: 12

רחק רחוק 
Rachowq 
Usage: 85

שׁפל 
Shaphel 
Usage: 31

References

Easton

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

Idolatry Is Adultery

8 Behind the doors and the door-post thou didst set thy memorial: for from me thou didst migrate, and thou wilt go up; thou didst make broad thy bed, and thou wilt cut out to thee from them; thou didst love their bed; thou didst look upon the hand. 9 And thou wilt pour out for the king with oil and thou wilt increase thy perfumes, and thou wilt send thy messengers even from far off, and thou wilt be made low, even to hades. 10 In the abundance of thy way thou wert wearied; thou midst, Not to give over; thou didst find the living of thy hand; for this, thou wert not pained.

Cross References

Ezekiel 23:16

And she will desire after them at the sight of her eyes, and she will send messengers to them to Chaldea.

2 Kings 16:7-11

And Ahaz will send messengers to lath-Pileser, king of Assur, saying, I thy servant and thy son: come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Aram, and out of the hand of the king of Israel rising up against me.

Proverbs 7:17

I sprinkled my bed with myrrh and aloes and cinnamon.

Isaiah 2:9

And man will bow down, and a man will humble himself, and thou shalt not lift up to them.

Isaiah 30:1-6

Wo to sons turning aside, says Jehovah, to make counsel and not from me; and to cover a covering, and not my spirit so as to add sin upon sin:

Isaiah 31:1-3

Wo to those going down to Egypt for help; and they will look upon horses, and trust upon chariots, because they are many; and upon horsemen because they were strong greatly; and they looked not upon the Holy One of Israel, and sought not Jehovah.

Ezekiel 16:33

To all committing fornication they will give liberal gifts: and thou gavest thy liberal gifts to all loving thee, and thou wilt make them a present to come in to thee from round about in thy fornications

Ezekiel 23:40

And also that ye will send to men coming from far off, whom a messenger was sent to them, and behold, they came: for whom thou didst wash, thou paintedst thine eyes, and thou didst deck with ornaments.

Hosea 7:11

And Ephraim will be as an enticed dove, not a heart: they called Egypt, they went to Assur.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim fed upon the wind, and he pursued the east wind: all the day he multiplied falsehood and destruction; and they will cut out a covenant with Assur, and oil will be brought to Egypt

Colossians 2:18

Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

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