Parallel Verses

Webster

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

The Emphasized Bible

The sound of battle is in the earth, - And a 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 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee. 22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. 23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:19-21

My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Jeremiah 51:54-56

A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

Isaiah 21:2-4

A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler plundereth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all her sighing have I made to cease.

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