Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Say to the king and the queen mother,
Take a lowly seat,
For your beautiful crown
Has come down from your head.”

King James Version

Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

Holman Bible

Say to the king and the queen mother:
Take a humble seat,
for your glorious crowns
have fallen from your heads.

International Standard Version

Say to the king and the queen mother, "Come take a lowly seat, because your beautiful crowns have fallen off your heads."

A Conservative Version

Say thou to the king and to the queen-mother: Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your coronets have come down, even the crown of your glory.

American Standard Version

Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headtires are come down, even the crown of your glory.

Amplified


Say to the king and the queen mother,
“Humble yourselves and take a lowly seat,
For your beautiful crown [the crown of your glory]
Has come down from your head.”

Bible in Basic English

Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.

Darby Translation

Say unto the king and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down low; for from your heads shall come down the crown of your magnificence.

Julia Smith Translation

Say to the king and to the mistress, Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory was brought down from your heads.

King James 2000

Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your rule shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Say to the king and to the queen mother, '{Take a lower seat}, for {your beautiful crown} has come down from your head.'

Modern King James verseion

Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your greatness shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Tell the king and the rulers, "Humble yourselves, set you down low, for the crown of your glory shall fall from your head."

NET Bible

The Lord told me, "Tell the king and the queen mother, 'Surrender your thrones, for your glorious crowns will be removed from your heads.

New Heart English Bible

"Say to the king and to the queen mother, 'Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses have come down, even the crown of your glory.

The Emphasized Bible

Say thou to the king and to the queen-mother, Abase yourselves - Sit down, - For descended have your Head-tires, your Crown of adornment.

Webster

Say to the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

World English Bible

Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses have come down, even the crown of your glory.

Youngs Literal Translation

Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low -- sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
unto the king
מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

and to the queen
גּבירה 
G@biyrah 
Usage: 6

שׁפל 
Shaphel 
Usage: 31

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

מראשׁה 
Mar'ashah 
Usage: 1

ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

even the crown
עטרה 
`atarah 
Usage: 23

References

American

Fausets

Smith

Context Readings

A Message For The King And The Queen Mother

17 But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock has been taken captive. 18 Say to the king and the queen mother,
Take a lowly seat,
For your beautiful crown
Has come down from your head.”
19 The cities of the Negeb are shut up, with none to open them; all Judah is taken into exile, wholly taken into exile.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:12

and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign

Jeremiah 22:26

I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die.

2 Kings 24:15

And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 33:12

And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

2 Chronicles 33:19

And his prayer, and how God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

2 Chronicles 33:23

And he did not humble himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more.

Isaiah 3:26

And her gates shall lament and mourn; empty, she shall sit on the ground.

Isaiah 47:1

Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Ezekiel 19:2-14

and say: What was your mother? A lioness! Among lions she crouched; in the midst of young lions she reared her cubs.

Jonah 3:6

The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Matthew 18:4

Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

James 4:10

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

1 Peter 5:6

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,

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