Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Judah mourns, and its gates droop. They are black to the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

New American Standard Bible

“Judah mourns
And her gates languish;
They sit on the ground in mourning,
And the cry of Jerusalem has ascended.

King James Version

Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

Holman Bible

Judah mourns;
her gates languish.
Her people are on the ground in mourning;
Jerusalem’s cry rises up.

International Standard Version

"Judah mourns, and her gates languish. The people mourn for the land, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.

A Conservative Version

Judah mourns, and the gates thereof languish. They sit in black upon the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

American Standard Version

Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

Amplified


“Judah mourns
And her gates languish;
Her people sit on the ground in mourning clothes
And the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

Bible in Basic English

Judah is weeping and its doors are dark with sorrow, and people are seated on the earth clothed in black; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

Darby Translation

Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem goeth up.

Julia Smith Translation

Judah mourned and her gates languished; they were darkened to the earth, and the outcry of Jerusalem went up.

King James 2000

Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they mourn for the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Judah mourns, and her gates languish, they are in mourning on the ground, and the cry of lament of Jerusalem goes up.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Judah shall mourn, men shall not go much more through his gates: the land shall be no more had in reputation, and the cry of Jerusalem shall break out.

NET Bible

"The people of Judah are in mourning. The people in her cities are pining away. They lie on the ground expressing their sorrow. Cries of distress come up to me from Jerusalem.

New Heart English Bible

"Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

The Emphasized Bible

Judah mourneth, And the gates thereof, pine They lie in gloom on the ground, - And the outcry Jerusalem, hath ascended;

Webster

Judah mourneth, and her gates languish; they are black to the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

World English Bible

Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

Youngs Literal Translation

Mourned hath Judah, and her gates have languished, They have mourned to the earth, And the cry of Jerusalem hath gone up.

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יהוּדה 
Y@huwdah 
Usage: 648

H56
אבל 
'abal 
Usage: 39

and the gates
שׁער 
Sha`ar 
Usage: 374

אמל 
'amal 
Usage: 16

קדר 
Qadar 
Usage: 17

unto the ground
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

and the cry
צוחה 
Ts@vachah 
Usage: 4

ירוּשׁלים ירוּשׁלם 
Y@ruwshalaim 
Usage: 642

References

American

Easton

Context Readings

The Severe Drought

1 The Word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the matter of droughts. 2 Judah mourns, and its gates droop. They are black to the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up. 3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters; they came to the cisterns, and found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

Cross References

Isaiah 3:26

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

1 Samuel 5:12

And the men that did not die were stricken with the hemorrhoids. And the cry of the city went up to the heavens.

Jeremiah 8:21

For the breaking of the daughter of my people I am broken; I am in gloom; horror has seized me.

Jeremiah 11:11

So Jehovah says this: Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry to Me, I will not listen to them.

Zechariah 7:13

And it will be, as He called, and they did not listen, so they called, and I did not listen, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Exodus 2:24

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

1 Samuel 9:16

Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin. And you shall anoint him to be leader over My people Israel, so that he may save My people out of the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked on My people because their cry has come to Me.

Job 34:28

so as to cause the cry of the poor to come to Him, for He hears the cry of the afflicted.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant; and He looked for justice, but behold bloody iniquity; for righteousness, but behold a cry!

Isaiah 15:5

My heart shall cry to Moab; his fugitives flee to Zoar, a heifer of three years. He goes up the ascent to Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of ruin.

Isaiah 24:4

The earth mourns and languishes; the world droops and languishes; the proud people of the earth droop.

Isaiah 24:7

The new wine mourns, the vine droops, all the merry-hearted sigh.

Isaiah 33:9

The earth mourns and droops. Lebanon is ashamed; Sharon withers like a wilderness; Bashan and Carmel are shaken out.

Jeremiah 4:28

The earth shall mourn for this, and the heavens above shall be black, because I have spoken, I have purposed, and will not repent, nor will I turn back from it.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long shall the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither from the evil of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds have been destroyed, because they said, He shall not see our last end.

Jeremiah 18:22

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when You suddenly bring a raiding party on them. For they have dug a pit to take me, and have hidden snares for my feet.

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates have sunk in the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her kings and her rulers are among the nations. The Law is no more; also her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah.

Lamentations 4:8-9

Their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up; it has become like wood.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is hot like an oven because of the fever heat of famine.

Hosea 4:3

Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone who dwells in it shall droop, with the beasts of the field and with the birds of the heavens. Yes, the fish of the sea shall also be taken away.

Joel 1:10

The field is wasted; the land mourns, for the grain is wasted. The new wine is dried up; the oil tree droops.

Joel 2:6

Before their face the people shall be much pained; all faces shall gather blackness.

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