Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.

New American Standard Bible

Your holy cities have become a wilderness,
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

King James Version

Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Holman Bible

Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

International Standard Version

Your holy cities have become a desert; Zion has become like a desert, Jerusalem a desolation.

A Conservative Version

Thy holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

American Standard Version

Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Amplified


Your holy cities have become a wilderness,
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

Darby Translation

Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Julia Smith Translation

The cities of thy holy place were desert; Zion was a desert., Jerusalem a desolation.

King James 2000

Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{Your holy cities} have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Modern King James verseion

Your holy cities are a wilderness; Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem is a ruin.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The cities of thy Sanctuary lie waste: Zion is a wilderness, and Jerusalem a desert.

NET Bible

Your chosen cities have become a desert; Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.

New Heart English Bible

Your holy cities have become like a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

The Emphasized Bible

Thy holy cities, have become a wilderness, - Zion, a wilderness, hath become, Jerusalem, a desolation!

Webster

Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

World English Bible

Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thy holy cities have been a wilderness, Zion a wilderness hath been, Jerusalem a desolation.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
קדשׁ 
Qodesh 
Usage: 470

עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

מדבּר 
Midbar 
Usage: 271

ציּון 
Tsiyown 
Usage: 154

is a wilderness
מדבּר 
Midbar 
Usage: 271

ירוּשׁלים ירוּשׁלם 
Y@ruwshalaim 
Usage: 642

References

Context Readings

Prayer For Mercy

9 Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people. 10 Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls. 11 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction.

Cross References

Isaiah 1:7

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.

2 Kings 25:9

And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire;

2 Chronicles 36:19-21

And the house of God was burned and the wall of Jerusalem broken down; all its great houses were burned with fire and all its beautiful vessels given up to destruction.

Psalm 79:1-7

O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.

Lamentations 1:1-4

See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!

Lamentations 2:4-8

His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.

Lamentations 5:18

Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.

Daniel 9:26-27

And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no ...; and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed.

Daniel 12:7

Then in my hearing the man clothed in linen, who was over the river, lifting up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, took an oath by him who is living for ever that it would be a time, times, and a half; and when the power of the crusher of the holy people comes to an end, all these things will be ended.

Micah 3:12

For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

Luke 21:21

Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains; and those who are in the middle of the town go out; and let not those who are in the country come in.

Luke 21:24

And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.

Revelation 11:1-2

And there was given to me a measuring rod: and one said, Go up and take the measure of the house of God, and the altar, and the worshippers in it.

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