Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Let your eyes be lifted up (O Jerusalem), and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock which was given to you, your beautiful flock?
New American Standard Bible
Those coming
Where is the
Your beautiful sheep?
King James Version
Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
Holman Bible
those coming from the north.
Where is the flock entrusted to you,
the sheep that were your pride?
International Standard Version
"Look up and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you your beautiful sheep?
A Conservative Version
Lift up your eyes, and behold those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
American Standard Version
Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
Amplified
“Lift up your eyes and see
Those coming from the north.
Where is the flock that was given to you [to shepherd],
Your beautiful flock?
Darby Translation
Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north. Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
Julia Smith Translation
Lift up your eyes and see them coming from the north: where the flock given to thee, the sheep of thy glory?
King James 2000
Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Lift up your eyes and see those coming from [the] north. Where [is] the flock that was given to you, {your magnificent flock}?
Modern King James verseion
Lift up your eyes and behold those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Lift up your eyes, and behold them, that come from the North: Like a fat flock shall they fall upon thee.
NET Bible
Then I said, "Look up, Jerusalem, and see the enemy that is coming from the north. Where now is the flock of people that were entrusted to your care? Where now are the 'sheep' that you take such pride in?
New Heart English Bible
"Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?
The Emphasized Bible
Lift up your eyes and see Them who are coming in from the North, - Where is The flock that was given thee, Thy beautiful flock?
Webster
Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
World English Bible
Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?
Youngs Literal Translation
Lift up your eyes, and see those coming in from the north, Where is the drove given to thee, thy beautiful flock?
Themes
Interlinear
Nasa'
`ayin
Ra'ah
Tsaphown
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 13:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message For The King And The Queen Mother
19 The towns of the south are shut up, and there is no one to make them open: Judah is taken away as prisoners; all Judah is taken away as prisoners. 20 Let your eyes be lifted up (O Jerusalem), and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock which was given to you, your beautiful flock? 21 What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 6:22
The Lord has said, See, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.
Jeremiah 23:2
So this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said against the keepers who have the care of my people: You have let my flock be broken up, driving them away and not caring for them; see, I will send on you the punishment for the evil of your doings, says the Lord.
Habakkuk 1:6
For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.
Jeremiah 1:14
Then the Lord said to me, Out of the north evil will come, bursting out on all the people of the land.
Jeremiah 13:17
But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.
Isaiah 56:9-12
All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat, even all you beasts of the wood.
Jeremiah 10:22
News is going about, see, it is coming, a great shaking is coming from the north country, so that the towns of Judah may be made waste and become the living-place of jackals.
Ezekiel 34:7-10
For this cause, O keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord:
Zechariah 11:16-17
For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.
John 10:12-13
He who is a servant, and not the keeper or the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming and goes in flight, away from the sheep; and the wolf comes down on them and sends them in all directions:
Acts 20:26-29
And so I say to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men.