Parallel Verses

New Heart English Bible

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

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.

Bible in Basic English

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

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.

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 Do not be furious, LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people. 10 Your holy cities have become like a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

Cross References

Isaiah 1:7

Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

2 Kings 25:9

He burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.

2 Chronicles 36:19-21

They burnt God's house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels of it.

Psalm 79:1-7

God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

Lamentations 1:1-4

How the city sits solitary, that was full of people. She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations. She who was a princess among the provinces has become a forced laborer.

Lamentations 2:4-8

He has bent his bow like an enemy; his right hand he has positioned like an adversary. He killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire.

Lamentations 5:18

For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.

Daniel 9:26-27

After the sixty-two weeks an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and his end shall come with a flood, and until the end there shall be war; desolations are decreed.

Daniel 12:7

I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have made an end of breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

Micah 3:12

Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

Luke 21:21

Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the midst of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Revelation 11:1-2

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, "Rise and measure God's temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it.

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