Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

The sound of battle is in the earth, - And a great destruction.

New American Standard Bible

“The noise of battle is in the land,
And great destruction.

King James Version

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

Holman Bible

The sound of war is in the land
a great destruction.

International Standard Version

The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction.

A Conservative Version

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

American Standard Version

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

Amplified


“The noise of battle is in the land,
And [the noise of] great destruction.

Bible in Basic English

There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction.

Darby Translation

A sound of battle is in the land, and great destruction.

Julia Smith Translation

The voice of war in the land, and a great breaking.

King James 2000

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[The] sound of battle [is] in the land, and great destruction.

Modern King James verseion

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great ruin.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

There is gone about the land a cry of a slaughter and great murder, namely on this manner:

NET Bible

The noise of battle can be heard in the land of Babylonia. There is the sound of great destruction.

New Heart English Bible

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

Webster

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

World English Bible

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

Youngs Literal Translation

A noise of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
A sound
קל קול 
Qowl 
Usage: 506

of battle
מלחמה 
Milchamah 
Usage: 319

is in the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

and of great
גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

Verse Info

Context Readings

A Message Concerning Babylon

21 Against the land of Merathaim, go thou up against her, And against the inhabitants of Pekod, - Lay waste and devote to destruction after them Declareth Yahweh, And do according to all which I have commanded thee. 22 The sound of battle is in the earth, - And a great destruction. 23 How s cut and broken the hammer of all the earth! How hath Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!



Cross References

Jeremiah 4:19-21

My bowels! My bowels! I am pained in the walls of my heart My heart beateth aloud to me I cannot be still! For the sound of a horn, hast thou heard O my soul, The loud shout of war!

Jeremiah 51:54-56

A voice of outcry from Babylon! And a great crash from the land of the Chaldeans!

Isaiah 21:2-4

So hath, a grievous vision, been told me: - the deceiver, is deceiving. And the spoiler, is spoiling, Go up, O Elam Besiege O Media, All the sighing she hath caused, have I made to cease.

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