Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

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

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Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

A Call For Repentance

22 "Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding." "Behold, we have come to you; for you are the LORD our God. 23 Truly in vain is help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God. 24 But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.



Cross References

Psalm 3:8

Salvation belongs to the LORD. Your blessing be on your people. Selah.

Psalm 121:1-2

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

Isaiah 12:2

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD, the LORD, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation."

Jeremiah 17:14

Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.

Psalm 37:39-40

But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

Isaiah 43:11

I myself am the LORD; and besides me there is no savior.

Isaiah 44:9

Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses do not see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

Isaiah 45:15

Most certainly you are a God who hid yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.'"

Isaiah 45:17

Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save.

Isaiah 46:7-8

They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

Isaiah 63:1

Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? "It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save."

Isaiah 63:16

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

Jeremiah 3:6

Moreover, the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.

Jeremiah 10:14-16

Every man has become brutish and without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 14:8

You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

Ezekiel 20:28

For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their pleasant aroma, and they poured out there their drink offerings.

Hosea 1:7

But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen."

Jonah 2:8-9

Those who regard worthless things forsake their faithfulness.

John 4:22

You worship that which you do not know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

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