Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

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 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 Also I spoke to the priests and to all the people, saying, So says Jehovah, Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Jehovah's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon. For they prophesy a lie to you. 17 Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. For why should this city be laid waste? 18 But if they are prophets, and if the Word of Jehovah is with them, let them now pray to Jehovah of Hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of Jehovah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.



Cross References

Jeremiah 7:34

Then I will cause the voice of gladness to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. For the land shall be desolate.

Jeremiah 27:11-13

But the nations who bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those I will leave on their own land, says Jehovah. And they shall work it and dwell in it.

Jeremiah 38:17

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, So says Jehovah, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: If you will surely go forth to the king of Babylon's rulers, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire. And you shall live, and your house.

Jeremiah 38:23

So they shall bring out all your wives and your sons to the Chaldeans. And you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. And you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.

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