Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Truly in vain from the hills; the multitude of mountains; truly in Jehovah our God the salvation of Israel.

New American Standard Bible

“Surely, the hills are a deception,
A tumult on the mountains.
Surely in the Lord our God
Is the salvation of Israel.

King James Version

Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.

Holman Bible

Surely, falsehood comes from the hills,
commotion from the mountains,
but the salvation of Israel
is only in the Lord our God.

International Standard Version

Truly the hills are a deception, and the mountains are confusion. Truly, in the LORD our God is Israel's salvation."

American Standard Version

Truly in vain is the help that is looked for from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.

Amplified


“Truly, [the hope of salvation from] the hill [where idols are worshiped] is a deception,
A tumult and noisy multitude on the mountains;
Truly in the Lord our God
Is the salvation of Israel.

Bible in Basic English

Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

Darby Translation

Truly in vain is salvation looked for from the hills, and the multitude of mountains; truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.

King James 2000

Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Surely, an illusion [comes] from [the] hills, [the] turmoil [on] the mountains. Surely, in Yahweh our God [is] the salvation of Israel.

Modern King James verseion

Truly, for delusion comes from the high hills, tumult on the mountains. Truly, in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The hills fall, and all the high pride of the mountains; but the health of Israel standeth only upon God our LORD.

NET Bible

We know our noisy worship of false gods on the hills and mountains did not help us. We know that the Lord our God is the only one who can deliver Israel.

New Heart English Bible

Truly in vain is help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.

The Emphasized Bible

Surely, to falsehood, pertain the hills The noisy throng on the mountains, - Surely, in Yahweh our God, is the salvation of Israel!

Webster

Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.

World English Bible

Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.

Youngs Literal Translation

Surely in vain from the heights, The multitude of mountains -- Surely in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אכן 
'aken 
Usage: 18

in vain
שׁקר 
Sheqer 
Usage: 113

גּבעה 
Gib`ah 
Usage: 69

and from the multitude
המן המון 
Hamown 
Usage: 83

הר 
Har 
Usage: 544

אכן 
'aken 
Usage: 18

in the Lord

Usage: 0

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

is the salvation
תּשׁעה תּשׁוּעה 
T@shuw`ah 
Usage: 34

References

American

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

A Call For Repentance

22 Turn back, ye sons turning away; I will heal your turnings-away. Behold, we came to thee; for thou Jehovah our God. 23 Truly in vain from the hills; the multitude of mountains; truly in Jehovah our God the salvation of Israel. 24 And shame consumed the labor of our fathers from our youth; their sheep and their herd, their sons and their daughters.

Cross References

Psalm 3:8

To Jehovah salvation: upon thy people thy blessing. Silence.

Psalm 121:1-2

Song of ascensions. I will lift up mine eyes to the mountains from whence shall come my help.

Isaiah 12:2

Behold God my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid: for my strength and song is Jah Jehovah, and he will be to me for salvation.

Jeremiah 17:14

Heal me, O Jehovah, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou my praise.

Psalm 37:39-40

And the salvation of the just is from Jehovah: their strength in time of straits.

Isaiah 43:11

I, I, Jehovah, and none saving besides me.

Isaiah 44:9

They forming a carved image all of them emptiness; and their delights shall not profit, and they are their witnesses; they will not see and they will not know, so that they shall be ashamed.

Isaiah 45:15

Surely thou art God hiding thyself, the God of Israel, the Saviour.

Isaiah 45:17

Israel was saved in Jehovah with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed and ye shall not be disgraced even to forever, forever.

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble ye together and come; draw ye near together, the escaped of the nations: they knew not lifting up the wood of their carved image, and praying to God he will not save.

Isaiah 46:7-8

They will lift him up upon the shoulder, they will carry him, they will set him down in his place and he will stand; from his place he shall not depart: also he will cry out to him and he will not answer; he will not save him from his straits

Isaiah 63:1

Who this coming from Edom, splendid with garments from Bozra? this adorned in his attire, bowing himself in his strength? I, speaking in justice, great for salvation.

Isaiah 63:16

For thou our Father, for Abraham knew us not, and Israel will not recognize us: thou Jehovah our Father redeeming us; thy name from eternity.

Jeremiah 3:6

And Jehovah will say to me in the days of Josiah the king, Sawest thou what Israel turning back, did? She went up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and she will commit fornication there.

Jeremiah 10:14-16

Every man was brutish from knowledge: every founder was ashamed from his carved image; for his molten image a falsehood, and no spirit in them.

Jeremiah 14:8

The hope of Israel, saving him in time of straits, wherefore wilt thou be as a sojourner in the earth, and as a traveler turning aside to lodge?

Ezekiel 20:28

And I shall bring them to the land which I lifted up my hand to give, it to them, and they will see every high hill and every thick tree, and they will sacrifice there their sacrifices, and they will give there the provocation of their oblation, and they will set there the odor of their sweetnesses, and they will pour out there their libations:

Hosea 1:7

And I will compassionate the house of Judah, and I saved them by Jehovah their God, and I will not save them by bow and by sword, and by battle, by horses and by horsemen.

Jonah 2:8-9

They watching the vanities of falsehood will forsake their kindness.

John 4:22

Ye worship what ye know not: we worship what we know: for salvation is of the Jews.

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