Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.

New American Standard Bible

So the Lord cuts off head and tail from Israel,
Both palm branch and bulrush in a single day.

King James Version

Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

Holman Bible

So the Lord cut off Israel’s head and tail,
palm branch and reed in a single day.

International Standard Version

So the LORD has cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in a single day

A Conservative Version

Therefore LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.

American Standard Version

Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.

Amplified


Therefore the Lord cuts off head and tail [the highest and the lowest] from Israel,
Both [the high] palm branch and [the low] bulrush in one day.

Darby Translation

And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day:

Julia Smith Translation

And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day.

King James 2000

Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

Lexham Expanded Bible

So Yahweh cut off head and tail from Israel, palm branch and reed [in] one day.

Modern King James verseion

And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Therefore the LORD shall root out of Israel both head and tail, branch and twig in one day.

NET Bible

So the Lord cut off Israel's head and tail, both the shoots and stalk in one day.

New Heart English Bible

Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

The Emphasized Bible

Therefore hath Yahweh cut off from Israel - Head and tail Palm-top and rush, In one day.

Webster

Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

World English Bible

Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

Youngs Literal Translation

And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch and reed -- the same day,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
will cut off
כּרת 
Karath 
Usage: 287

ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
Usage: 598

and tail
זנב 
Zanab 
Usage: 11

כּפּה 
Kippah 
Usage: 3

and rush
אגמון 
'agmown 
Usage: 5

in one
אחד 
'echad 
Usage: 432

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Context Readings

Yahweh's Anger Against Arrogance

13 But the heart of the people was not turned to him who sent punishment on them, and they made no prayer to the Lord of armies. 14 For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day. 15 The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail.


Cross References

Isaiah 19:15

And in Egypt there will be no work for any man, head or tail, high or low, to do.

Revelation 18:8

For this reason in one day will her troubles come, death and sorrow and need of food; and she will be completely burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who is her judge.

2 Kings 17:6-20

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and took Israel away to Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes.

Isaiah 3:2-3

The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years;

Isaiah 10:17

And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day.

Isaiah 30:13

This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.

Hosea 1:4

And the Lord said to him, Give him the name of Jezreel, for after a little time I will send punishment for the blood of Jezreel on the line of Jehu, and put an end to the kingdom of Israel.

Hosea 1:6

And after that she gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said, Give her the name Lo-ruhamah; for I will not again have mercy on Israel, to give them forgiveness.

Hosea 1:9

And the Lord said, Give him the name Lo-ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be your God.

Hosea 4:5

You will not be able to keep on your feet by day, and by night the prophet will be falling down with you, and I will give your mother to destruction.

Hosea 5:12-14

And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.

Hosea 8:8

Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.

Hosea 9:11-17

As for Ephraim, their glory will go in flight like a bird: there will be no birth and no one with child and no giving of life.

Hosea 10:15

So will Beth-el do to you because of your evil-doing; at dawn will the king of Israel be cut off completely.

Hosea 13:3

So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.

Amos 2:14-16

And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:

Amos 3:12

These are the words of the Lord: As the keeper of sheep takes out of the mouth of the lion two legs or part of an ear; so will the children of Israel be made safe, who are resting in Samaria on seats of honour or on the silk cushions of a bed.

Amos 5:2-3

The virgin of Israel has been made low, never again to be lifted up: she is stretched out by herself on her land; there is no one to put her on her feet again.

Amos 6:11

For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.

Amos 7:8-9

And the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A weighted line. Then the Lord said, See, I will let down a weighted line among my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin:

Amos 7:17

So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.

Amos 9:1-9

I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe.

Micah 1:6-8

So I will make Samaria into a field and the plantings of a vine-garden: I will send its stones falling down into the valley, uncovering its bases.

Revelation 18:10

Watching from far away, for fear of her punishment, saying, Sorrow, sorrow for Babylon, the great town, the strong town! for in one hour you have been judged.

Revelation 18:17

For in one hour such great wealth has come to nothing. And every shipmaster, and all who are sailing on the sea, and sailors and all who get their living by the sea, were watching from far away,

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