Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Confusion hath devoured our fathers' labour from our youth up: yea, their sheep and bullocks, their sons and daughters.

New American Standard Bible

“But the shameful thing has consumed the labor of our fathers since our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

King James Version

For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Holman Bible

From the time of our youth
the shameful one has consumed
what our fathers have worked for—
their flocks and their herds,
their sons and their daughters.

International Standard Version

Since our youth the false gods have consumed the products of our ancestors' hard work, their sheep and their cattle, their sons and their daughters.

American Standard Version

But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Amplified

“But the shameful act [of idolatry] has consumed the labor of our fathers since our youth—their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Bible in Basic English

But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Darby Translation

But shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Julia Smith Translation

And shame consumed the labor of our fathers from our youth; their sheep and their herd, their sons and their daughters.

King James 2000

For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our ancestors from our youth, their flocks, and their cattle, their sons and their daughters.

Modern King James verseion

For shame has eaten up the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

NET Bible

From earliest times our worship of that shameful god, Baal, has taken away all that our ancestors worked for. It has taken away our flocks and our herds, and even our sons and daughters.

New Heart English Bible

But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

The Emphasized Bible

But, the Shameful thing, hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth: Their flocks, and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Webster

For shame hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

World English Bible

But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Youngs Literal Translation

And the shameful thing hath devoured The labour of our fathers from our youth, Their flock and their herd, Their sons and their daughters.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּשׁת 
Bosheth 
Usage: 30

אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

the labour
יגיע 
Y@giya` 
Usage: 16

נערה נער נעוּר 
Na`uwr 
Usage: 47

צאון צאןo 
Tso'n 
Usage: 274

and their herds
בּקר 
Baqar 
Usage: 183

References

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

A Call For Repentance

23 The hills fall, and all the high pride of the mountains; but the health of Israel standeth only upon God our LORD. 24 Confusion hath devoured our fathers' labour from our youth up: yea, their sheep and bullocks, their sons and daughters. 25 So do we also sleep in our confusion, and shame covereth us: for we and our fathers from our youth up unto this day have sinned against the LORD our God, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."

Cross References

Hosea 9:10

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, and saw their fathers as the first figs in the top of the fig tree. But they are gone to Baalpeor, and run away from me to that shameful Idol, and are become as abominable as their lovers.

Jeremiah 11:13

For as many cities as thou hast, O Judah, so many gods hast thou also: And look how many streets there be in thee, O Jerusalem: so many shameful altars have ye set up, to offer upon them unto Baal.

Ezekiel 16:61

So that thou also remember thy ways, and be ashamed of them. Then shalt thou receive of me thy elder and younger sisters, whom I will make thy daughters: and that beside thy covenant.

Ezekiel 16:63

That thou mayest think upon it, be ashamed, and excuse thine own confusion no more: when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, sayeth the LORD God.'"

Hosea 2:8

And she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold: which they bestowed upon Baal.

Hosea 10:6

It shall be brought to the Assyrians for a present unto king Jareb. Ephraim shall receive full punishment; Israel shall be confounded for his own imaginations;

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