Parallel Verses

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.

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.

Julia Smith Translation

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

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 Return, apostate children, I will heal your backsliding. 'Look, we come to you, for you are Yahweh our God. 23 Surely, an illusion [comes] from [the] hills, [the] turmoil [on] the mountains. Surely, in Yahweh our God [is] the salvation of Israel. 24 But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our ancestors from our youth, their flocks, and their cattle, their sons and their daughters.

Cross References

Psalm 3:8

To Yahweh belongs deliverance; [may] your blessing [be] over your people. Selah

Psalm 121:1-2

I lift up my eyes to the mountains; whence will my help come?

Isaiah 12:2

Look! God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and I will not be afraid, for my strength and might [is] Yah, Yahweh; and he has become salvation for me."

Jeremiah 17:14

Heal me, Yahweh, and I will be healed, save me, and I will be saved, for you [are] my praise.

Psalm 37:39-40

And [the] salvation of [the] righteous [is] from Yahweh, their refuge in [the] time of trouble.

Isaiah 43:11

I myself [am] Yahweh, and there is no savior besides me!

Isaiah 44:9

All those who form an idol [are] nothing, and their delightful things do not profit. And their witnesses do not see or know, so they will be ashamed.

Isaiah 45:15

Surely you [are] a God who keeps yourself hidden, God of Israel, [the] savior.

Isaiah 45:17

Israel is saved by Yahweh [with] everlasting salvation; you shall not be ashamed, and you shall not be humiliated {to all eternity}.

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble and come; draw near together, survivors of the nations! They do not know, those who carry {their wooden idols} and pray to a god who cannot save.

Isaiah 46:7-8

They carry it on [their] shoulder; they support it and they set it [in] its place, and it stands in position. It cannot be removed from its place; even [when] he cries out to it, it does not answer. It does not save him from his trouble.

Isaiah 63:1

Who [is] this, coming from Edom, from Bozrah [in] bright red garments? [Who is] this honored in his garment, lying down in his great strength? "[It is] I, speaking in justice, {mighty} to save!"

Isaiah 63:16

For you [are] our father, although Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh [are] our father, Our Redeemer from [of] old [is] your name.

Jeremiah 3:6

Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah, the king, "Have you seen what apostate Israel has done? She has gone on every high hill and under every leafy tree and she has prostituted [herself] there.

Jeremiah 10:14-16

{Everyone} is stupid, {without knowledge}, every goldsmith is ashamed by [his] divine image, for his cast image [is] an illusion, and [there is] no breath in them.

Jeremiah 14:8

[You are] the hope of Israel, its savior in time of distress. Why should you be like an alien in the land, or like a traveler who spreads out [his tent] to spend the night?

Ezekiel 20:28

And I brought them to the land that {I swore} to give to them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, and they offered their sacrifices, and they presented there the provocation of their offering, and they gave there their fragrant incense offering, and they poured out their libations there.

Hosea 1:7

But I will have pity [on] the house of Judah and I will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not deliver them by bow, sword, war, horses, or horsemen.

Jonah 2:8-9

Those who worship vain idols forsake their loyal love.

John 4:22

You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

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