Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

Do not hearken unto them, serve the king of Babylon land live! wherefore, should this city become a desolation?

New American Standard Bible

Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

King James Version

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

Holman Bible

Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

International Standard Version

Don't listen to them! Serve the king of Babylon and you'll live. Why should this city become a ruin?

A Conservative Version

Hearken not to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation?

American Standard Version

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation?

Amplified

Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

Bible in Basic English

Give no attention to them; become servants of the king of Babylon and keep yourselves from death: why let this town become a waste?

Darby Translation

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a waste?

Julia Smith Translation

Ye shall not hear to them; serve ye the king of Babel, and live: wherefore shall this city be laid waste?

King James 2000

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city be laid waste?

Lexham Expanded Bible

And you must not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a site of ruins?

Modern King James verseion

Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. For why should this city be laid waste?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Hear them not, but serve the king of Babylon, that ye may live. Wherefore will ye make this city to be destroyed?

NET Bible

Do not listen to them. Be subject to the king of Babylon. Then you will continue to live. Why should this city be made a pile of rubble?'"

New Heart English Bible

Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?'

Webster

Hearken not to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city be laid waste?

World English Bible

Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?

Youngs Literal Translation

Ye do not hearken unto them, serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why is this city a waste?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

the king
מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

of Babylon
בּבל 
babel 
Usage: 262

and live
חיה 
Chayah 
Usage: 264

עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

References

Fausets

Context Readings

The Vessels Of The Temple

16 Also unto the priests, and unto all this people, spake I, saying, Thus! saith Yahweh, Do not hearken unto the words of your prophets, who are prophesying unto you saying, Lo! the vessels of the house of Yahweh, are to be brought back out of Babylon now, quickly; for falsehood, are they prophesying unto you. 17 Do not hearken unto them, serve the king of Babylon land live! wherefore, should this city become a desolation? 18 But, if prophets, they are, and if the word of Yahweh is with them, let them intercede, I pray you, with Yahweh of hosts, that the vessels which are left remaining in the house of Yahweh and the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem, come not into Babylon.

Cross References

Jeremiah 7:34

So will I cause to cease, From the cities of Judah, and, From the streets of Jerusalem, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, The voice of the bridegroom, and The voice of the bride, - For, a desolation, shall the land become.

Jeremiah 27:11-13

But the nation that shall bring its neck into the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let them remain in quietness upon their own soil, Declareth Yahweh, and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

Jeremiah 38:17

Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah - Thus, saith Yahweh God of hosts, God of Israel - If thou wilt, indeed go forth, unto the princes of the king of Babylon, then shall thine own soul live, and, this city, shall not be burned with fire, - but thou shalt live, thou and thy house.

Jeremiah 38:23

Yea thou shalt behold all thy wives and thy children brought forth unto the Chaldeans, and thou, shalt not escape out of their hand, - but by the hand of the king of Babylon, shalt thou be taken, and, this city, shall be burned with fire.

King James Version Public Domain

Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers.

International Standard Version Copyright © 1996-2008 by the ISV Foundation.

New American Standard Bible Copyright ©1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org

American Standard Version Public Domain

NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. NetBible

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain