Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

How long wilt thou wander about, O daughter turning away? for Jehovah created a new thing in the earth: A female shall go about a male.

New American Standard Bible

“How long will you go here and there,
O faithless daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth—
A woman will encompass a man.”

King James Version

How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

Holman Bible

How long will you turn here and there,
faithless daughter?
For the Lord creates something new in the land
a female will shelter a man.

International Standard Version

How long will you go this way and that, rebellious daughter? Indeed, the LORD will create a new thing on the earth; a woman will protect a man.

A Conservative Version

How long will thou go here and there, O thou backsliding daughter? For LORD has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.

American Standard Version

How long wilt thou go hither and thither, O thou backsliding daughter? for Jehovah hath created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.

Amplified


“How long will you hesitate [to return],
O you faithless and renegade daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing in the land [of Israel]:
A woman will encompass (tenderly love) a man.”

Bible in Basic English

How long will you go on turning this way and that, O wandering daughter? for the Lord has made a new thing on the earth, a woman changed into a man.

Darby Translation

How long wilt thou wander about, thou backsliding daughter? For Jehovah hath created a new thing on the earth, a woman shall encompass a man.

King James 2000

How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall protect a man.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{How long} will you waver, O unfaithful daughter? For Yahweh has created a new [thing] on the earth, a woman, she shelters a man."

Modern King James verseion

How long will you turn to and fro, O faithless daughter? For Jehovah has created a new thing in the land; a woman shall enclose a man.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

How long wilt thou go astray, O thou shrinking daughter? For the LORD will work a new thing upon earth: A woman shall compass a man.

NET Bible

How long will you vacillate, you who were once like an unfaithful daughter? For I, the Lord, promise to bring about something new on the earth, something as unique as a woman protecting a man!'"

New Heart English Bible

How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man."

The Emphasized Bible

How long wilt thou turn hither and thither, O apostate daughter? For Yahweh hath created a new thing in the earth, A female defendeth, a strong man!

Webster

How long wilt thou wander about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

World English Bible

How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.

Youngs Literal Translation

Till when dost thou withdraw thyself, O backsliding daughter? For Jehovah hath prepared a new thing in the land, Woman doth compass man.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
How long wilt thou go about
חמק 
Chamaq 
Usage: 2

O thou backsliding
שׁובב 
Showbeb 
Usage: 3

בּת 
Bath 
Usage: 587

for the Lord

Usage: 0

בּרא 
Bara' 
Usage: 54

חדשׁ 
Chadash 
Usage: 53

in the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

A woman
נקבה 
N@qebah 
Usage: 22

References

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Israel And Judah Will Be Delivered From Their Distress

21 Set up to thee thorns, set to thee bitternesses: place thy heart to the highway, the way thou wentest: turn back, O virgin of Israel, turn back to these thy cities. 22 How long wilt thou wander about, O daughter turning away? for Jehovah created a new thing in the earth: A female shall go about a male. 23 Thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel: Yet shall they say this word in the land of Judah and in its cities, in my turning back their captivity; Jehovah shall bless thee, thou habitation of justice, thou mountain of holiness

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:23

How wilt thou say, I was not defiled? I went not after the Baalims? See thy way in the valley, know what thou didst; a young she camel entangling her ways;

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 49:4

Wherefore wilt thou boast in the valleys, thy valley flowing away, O daughter turning away? trusting in her treasures, Who shall come to me?

Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity between thee and between the woman, and between thy seed and between her seed; it shall lie in wait for thee as to the head, and thou shalt lie in wait for him as to the heel.

Isaiah 7:14

For this, Jehovah he will give to you a sign Behold, the virgin conceiving, and she will bare a son, and call his name Immanuel.

Jeremiah 2:18

And now what to thee for the way of Egypt, to drink the water of Sihor? and what to thee to the way of Amur, to drink the water of the river?

Jeremiah 2:36

Why wilt thou despise greatly to do the second time thy way? also thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt as thou wert ashamed of Assur.

Numbers 16:30

And if Jehovah shall create a creation, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and all which is to them, and they went down living to hades; and ye know that these men rejected Jehovah,

Jeremiah 3:8

And I shall see for all the causes that Israel turning away committed adultery, I sent her away and I shall give a writing of her cutting off to her; and her faithless sister Judah was not afraid, and she will go and commit fornication, she also.

Jeremiah 3:11-12

And Jehovah will say to me, Israel turning away justified her soul above faithless Judah.

Jeremiah 3:14

Turn back, ye sons having turned away, says Jehovah; for I was lord over you: and I took you one from a city and two from a family, and I brought you to Zion.

Jeremiah 3:22

Turn back, ye sons turning away; I will heal your turnings-away. Behold, we came to thee; for thou Jehovah our God.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash from evil to thy heart so that thou shalt be saved. How long shall purposes of thy vanity lodge in the midst of thee?

Jeremiah 7:24

And they heard not and inclined not their ear, and they went in the counsels in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and they shall be for behind and not before.

Jeremiah 8:4-6

And say to them, Thus said Jehovah, Shall they fall and not rise? if he shall turn back, and not turn back?

Jeremiah 13:27

Thine adulteries and thy neighings, the purpose of thy harlotry upon the hills, in the field, I saw thine abominations. Wo to thee, O Jerusalem thou wilt not be cleansed after me; how long yet?

Jeremiah 14:7

If our iniquities answered against us, O Jehovah, do for sake of thy name: for our turnings back were many; we sinned against thee.

Hosea 4:16

For as a stubborn heifer Israel was stubborn: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide place.

Hosea 8:5

Thy calf rejected, O Shomeron; mine anger was kindled against them: how long shall they not be able to be clean?

Hosea 11:7

And my people are bent to turning away from me: and they will call together to the Most High; he will not exalt them.

Hosea 14:4

I will heal their turning away, I loved them largely: for mine anger turned away from him.

Zechariah 7:11

And they will refuse to attend, and they will give a stubborn shoulder, and their ears they made heavy from hearing.

Matthew 1:21

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins,

Luke 1:34-35

And Mary said to the messenger, How shall this be, since I. know not man?

Galatians 4:4

And when the completion of the time was come, God sent his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

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