Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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Context Readings

The Cup Of Wrath

13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations. 14 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. 15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel to me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.


Cross References

Jeremiah 51:6

Flee from the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.

Jeremiah 27:7

And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land shall come: and then many nations and great kings shall bring him into subjection.

Jeremiah 50:9

For lo, I will raise and cause to come against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

Jeremiah 50:41

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

Psalm 137:8

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

Isaiah 14:2

And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

Isaiah 45:1-3

Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two-leaved gates, and the gates shall not be shut;

Isaiah 66:6

A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompense to his enemies.

Jeremiah 50:29-34

Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, encamp against it on every side; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do to her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 51:20-28

Thou art my battle-ax and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

Jeremiah 51:35-41

The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

Daniel 5:28

PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Habakkuk 2:8-16

Because thou hast laid waste many nations, all the remnant of the people shall lay thee waste; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

Revelation 18:20-24

Rejoice over her thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.

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