Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

For many nations they also served upon them, and great kings: and I requited to them according to their work and according to the doings of their hands.

New American Standard Bible

(For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)’”

King James Version

For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

Holman Bible

For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.’”

International Standard Version

Indeed many nations and great kings will make slaves even of them, and I'll repay them according to their deeds, according to what they have done.'"

A Conservative Version

For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.

American Standard Version

For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.

Amplified

(For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even the Chaldeans [who enslaved other nations]; and I will repay [all of] them according to their deeds and according to the work of their [own] hands.)’”

Bible in Basic English

For a number of nations and great kings will make servants of them, even of them: and I will give them the reward of their acts, even the reward of the work of their hands.

Darby Translation

For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.

King James 2000

For many nations and great kings shall be served by them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For many nations and great kings will let them work, even them, and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.'"

Modern King James verseion

For many nations and great kings shall lay service on them also. And I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

so that they also shall be subdued unto divers nations and great kings, for I will recompense them according to their deeds and works of their own hands.'

NET Bible

For many nations and great kings will make slaves of the king of Babylon and his nation too. I will repay them for all they have done!'"

New Heart English Bible

For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.'"

The Emphasized Bible

For many nations and great kings have used, even them, as slaves, So will I recompense to them - According to their deed and According to the work of their own hands.

Webster

For many nations and great kings shall reduce them to subjection also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

World English Bible

For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.

Youngs Literal Translation

For laid service on them -- also them -- have many nations and great kings, and I have given recompence to them according to their doing, and according to the work of their hands.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּי גּוי 
Gowy 
Usage: 558

and great
גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

פּעל 
Po`al 
Usage: 37

and according to the works
מעשׂה 
Ma`aseh 
Usage: 234

References

American

Fausets

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

The Cup Of Wrath

13 And I brought upon this land all the words I spake against it, all being in this book which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. 14 For many nations they also served upon them, and great kings: and I requited to them according to their work and according to the doings of their hands. 15 For thus said Jehovah God of Israel to me: Take the cup of wine of this wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations which I sent thee to them to drink it


Cross References

Jeremiah 51:6

Flee from the midst of Babel and save ye each his soul: ye shall not be destroyed in her iniquity: for it is the time of vengeance to Jehovah; he will do to her a recompense.

Jeremiah 27:7

And all the nations served him, and his son, and his son's son, even till the time itself also of his land came: and many nations and great kings served upon him.

Jeremiah 50:9

For behold I raise up and bring up against Babel a convocation of great nations from the land of the north: and they arranged against her; from thence she shall be taken: his arrow as of a strong destroyer shall not turn back in vain.

Jeremiah 50:41

Behold, a people coming from the north and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the thighs of the earth.

Psalm 137:8

O daughter of Babel laying waste; happy he recompensing to thee thy retribution thou didst to us

Isaiah 14:2

And peoples took them and brought them to their place, and the house of Israel inherited them upon the land of Jehovah for servants and for maids: and they were captives to those having been made captives, and they came down upon those pressing them.

Isaiah 45:1-3

Thus said Jehovah to his Messiah, to Cyrus whom I held by his right hand to bring down nations before him; and I will loosen the loins of kings to open before him the doors; and the gates shall not be shut

Isaiah 66:6

A voice of uproar from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Jehovah requiting retribution to his enemies.

Jeremiah 50:29-34

Cause ye many to be heard against Babel: all ye bending the bow encamp against her round about; there shall be no escaping: requite her according to her work; according to all she did, do to her: for she acted proudly against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 51:20-28

Thou a mallet to me, a weapon of war: and I broke the nations in pieces with thee, and I destroyed kingdoms with thee;

Jeremiah 51:35-41

My violence and my remainder upon Babel, shall she dwelling in Zion say; and my blood to the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

Daniel 5:28

Pharsin; Thy kingdom was divided, and it shall be given to the Medes and to Persia.

Habakkuk 2:8-16

For thou didst spoil many nations, all the rest of the peoples shall spoil thee; from the bloods of man, and the violence of the land, of the city, and all dwelling in it.

Revelation 18:20-24

Rejoice over her, O heaven, and the holy sent, and the prophets; for God judged your judgment of her.

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