Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
For, thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this throw, - And I will distress them that they may discover it.
New American Standard Bible
For thus says the Lord,
“Behold, I am
At this time,
And will cause them distress,
That they may
King James Version
For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
Holman Bible
For this is what the Lord says:
the land’s residents at this time
and bringing them such distress
that they will feel it.
International Standard Version
For this is what the LORD says: "I'm going to throw out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I'll bring distress on them so they'll experience it."
A Conservative Version
For thus says LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel [it].
American Standard Version
For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it .
Amplified
For thus says the Lord;
“Behold, I am slinging out at this time the people of this land,
And will cause them [great] distress,
That they may find it [to be as I have said].”
Bible in Basic English
For the Lord has said, I will send the people in flight like a stone from the land at this time, troubling them so that they will be conscious of it.
Darby Translation
For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will this time sling out the inhabitants of the land, and will distress them, that they may be found.
Julia Smith Translation
For thus said Jehovah: Behold me slinging out those inhabiting the land at this once, and I pressed upon them so that they shall find.
King James 2000
For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For thus says Yahweh, "Look, I [am] about to sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress to them, so that they may feel it."
Modern King James verseion
For so says Jehovah, Behold, I will sling out the people of the land at this time, and will distress them, so that they may find Me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For thus sayeth the LORD, "Behold, I will now thrust out the inhabiters of this land a great way off, and trouble them of such a fashion, that they shall no more be found."
NET Bible
For the Lord says, "I will now throw out those who live in this land. I will bring so much trouble on them that they will actually feel it."
New Heart English Bible
For thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.'
Webster
For thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them that they may find it so.
World English Bible
For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel [it].
Youngs Literal Translation
For thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, And have been an adversary to them, So that they are found out.
Interlinear
Yashab
Pa`am
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 10:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Exile After The Siege
17 Fold up, from the ground thy travelling carpet, - O inhabitress of the fortress; 18 For, thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this throw, - And I will distress them that they may discover it. 19 Woe to me! for my grievous injury, Severe, is my wound, - But, I, said, Verily, this, is an affliction and I must bear it:
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:29
yea, though there hath arisen a sun of earth to pursue thee, and to seek thy life, yet shall the life of my lord be bound up in the bundle of the living, with Yahweh thy God, but, as for the life of thine enemies, he shall sling it out with the middle of the hollow of the sling.
Deuteronomy 28:63-64
And it shall come to pass that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so, will Yahweh rejoice over you, to cause you to perish and to destroy you, - and ye shall be torn away, from off the soil, whither thou art going in to possess it;
Jeremiah 15:1-2
Then said Yahweh unto me, Though Moses and Samuel should stand before me, My soul could not be toward this people, - Send them away from before me And let them go forth.
Jeremiah 16:13
Therefore will I hurl you forth, from off this land, unto a land which ye have not known, ye, nor your fathers, - and ye can serve there other gods day and night, in that I will grant you no favour.
Jeremiah 23:20
The anger of Yahweh, wilt not return, Until he hath executed nor Until he hath established The purposes of his heart, - In the afterpart of the days, shall ye understand it perfectly.
Ezekiel 6:10
Then shall they know that, I, Yahweh, - not in vain, had threatened to bring upon them this calamity.
Zechariah 1:6
Howbeit, as for my words and my statutes with which I charged my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and so they returned and said, Just as Yahweh of hosts planned to do unto us, according to our ways and according to our practices, So hath he dealt with us?