Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lay down in, for my people who have sought me.

New American Standard Bible

Sharon will be a pasture land for flocks,
And the valley of Achor a resting place for herds,
For My people who seek Me.

King James Version

And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

Holman Bible

Sharon will be a pasture for flocks,
and the Valley of Achor a place for cattle to lie down,
for My people who have sought Me.

International Standard Version

Sharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a fold for herds, for my people who have sought me.

American Standard Version

And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

Amplified


“And [the plain of] Sharon will be a place for flocks to graze,
And the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds,
For My people who seek Me [who long for Me and require My presence in their lives].

Bible in Basic English

And Sharon will be a grass-land for the flocks, and the valley of Achor a resting-place for the herds: for my people whose hearts have been turned back to me.

Darby Translation

And the Sharon shall be a fold for flocks, and the valley of Achor a couching-place of the herds, for my people that have sought me.

Julia Smith Translation

And Sharon was for a dwelling of sheep, and the valley of Achor for a resting place of the herd, for my people who sought me.

King James 2000

And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks, and the valley of Achor a resting place for herds for my people who have sought me.

Modern King James verseion

And Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting-place of herds for My people who have sought Me.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Sharon shall be a sheepfold, and the valley of Achor shall give the stalling for the cattle of my people, that fear me.

NET Bible

Sharon will become a pasture for sheep, and the Valley of Achor a place where cattle graze; they will belong to my people, who seek me.

New Heart English Bible

Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.

The Emphasized Bible

Then shall, Sharon, become, a fold for flocks, And the vale of Achor for the lying down of herds, - For my people who have sought me.

Webster

And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

World English Bible

Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.

Youngs Literal Translation

And Sharon hath been for the habitation of a flock, And the valley of Achor for the lying down of a herd, For My people who have sought Me.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁרון 
Sharown 
Usage: 7

shall be a fold
נוה נוה 
Naveh 
Usage: 35

of flocks
צאון צאןo 
Tso'n 
Usage: 274

and the valley
עמק 
`emeq 
Usage: 69

of Achor
עכור 
`Akowr 
Usage: 5

a place for the herds
בּקר 
Baqar 
Usage: 183

to lie down in
רבץ 
Rebets 
Usage: 4

for my people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

דּרשׁ 
Darash 
Usage: 164

References

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

Judgment And Salvation

9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains. And my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. 10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lay down in, for my people who have sought me. 11 But ye who forsake LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mingled wine to Destiny,

Cross References

Isaiah 35:2

It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of LORD, the excellency of our God.

Isaiah 33:9

The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their leaves].

Hosea 2:15

And I will give her her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope. And she shall make answer there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 51:1

Hearken to me, ye who follow after righteousness, ye who seek LORD. Look to the rock from where ye were hewn, and to the hold of the pit from where ye were dug.

Joshua 7:24-26

And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the mantle, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his donkeys, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he h

Ezekiel 34:13-14

And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the

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