Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

But as for the land to which they desire to return, they will not return to it.

King James Version

But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.

Holman Bible

They will never return to the land they long to return to.”

International Standard Version

As for the land to which you want to return, you won't return there!

A Conservative Version

But to the land to which their soul longs to return, there they shall not return.

American Standard Version

But to the land whereunto their soul longeth to return, thither shall they not return.

Amplified

But as for the land to which they long to return, they will not return to it.

Bible in Basic English

But to the land on which their soul's desire is fixed, they will never come back.

Darby Translation

And into the land whereunto they lift up their souls to return, thither shall they not return.

Julia Smith Translation

And upon the land where they lift up their soul to turn back there, there they shall not turn back.

King James 2000

But to the land to which they desire to return, there shall they not return.

Lexham Expanded Bible

As for the land to which they are {longing} to return, they will not return.

Modern King James verseion

But to the land to which they desire to return, there they shall not return.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But as for the land that ye will desire to return unto, ye shall never come at it again.

NET Bible

You will never come back to this land to which you will long to return!"

New Heart English Bible

But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return."

The Emphasized Bible

But unto the land whither they shall be lifting up their souls to return, thither, shall they not return.

Webster

But to the land to which they desire to return, thither shall they not return.

World English Bible

But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return.

Youngs Literal Translation

And to the land whither they are lifting up their soul to return, Thither they do not return.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
But to the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

נסה נשׂא 
Nasa' 
Usage: 653

to return
שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

References

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

A Message Concerning Coniah

26 I will throw you and your mother into another land. You were not born there, but you will die there. 27 But as for the land to which they desire to return, they will not return to it. 28 This Jehoiakin is like a rejected and broken pot that no one wants. Is that why he and his descendants will be thrown out and cast into another land they have never heard of?



Cross References

2 Kings 25:27-30

In the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin king of Judah had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his rule, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison.

Psalm 86:4

Give me joy, O Jehovah, and lift me up.

Jeremiah 22:11

This is what Jehovah says about King Josiah's son Shallum, who succeeded his father as king of Judah and left this place: 'He will never come back here again.

Jeremiah 44:14

None of the people of Judah who are left and have come to Egypt to live will escape or survive. Not one of them will return to Judah, where they long to live once again. No one will return except a few refugees.'

Jeremiah 52:31-34

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the imprisonment of King Jehoiakin of Judah, King Evil Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, freed King Jehoiakin of Judah and released him from prison.

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