Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

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

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?

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?'

The Emphasized Bible

Do not hearken unto them, serve the king of Babylon land live! wherefore, 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 Then I spoke to the priests and all these people, saying, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Do not listen to the words of your prophets. They are prophesying to you, claiming, “Look, very soon now the articles of the Lord’s temple will be brought back from Babylon.” They are prophesying a lie to you. 17 Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin? 18 If they are indeed prophets and if the word of the Lord is with them, let them intercede with the Lord of Hosts not to let the articles that remain in the Lord’s temple, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem go to Babylon.’



Cross References

Jeremiah 7:34

I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sound of joy and gladness and the voices of the groom and the bride, for the land will become a desolate waste.

Jeremiah 27:11-13

But as for the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave it in its own land, and that nation will cultivate it and reside in it.” This is the Lord’s declaration.

Jeremiah 38:17

Jeremiah therefore said to Zedekiah, “This is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If indeed you surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and you and your household will survive.

Jeremiah 38:23

All your wives and sons will be brought out to the Chaldeans. You yourself will not escape from them, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon and this city will burn down.’”

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