Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

A drought is on her waters; and they shall be dried up. For it is the land of idols, and they act madly with idols.

New American Standard Bible

“A drought on her waters, and they will be dried up!
For it is a land of idols,
And they are mad over fearsome idols.

King James Version

A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

Holman Bible

A drought will come on her waters,
and they will be dried up.
For it is a land of carved images,
and they go mad because of terrifying things.

International Standard Version

A drought against her waters. They'll dry up. For it's a land of idols, and they go mad over their terrifying images.

A Conservative Version

A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.

American Standard Version

A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.

Amplified


“A drought on her waters, and they will dry up!
For it is a land of [worthless] idols,
And they are mad over fearsome idols [those objects of terror in which they foolishly trust].

Bible in Basic English

A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.

Darby Translation

a drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad after frightful idols.

Julia Smith Translation

A sword upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: for it is a land of carved images, and in their terrors they will be foolish.

King James 2000

A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad over their idols.

Lexham Expanded Bible

A drought [will come] against her waters, and they will dry up, for it [is] a land of images, and because of the frightful [objects], they act like madmen.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The sword upon their waters: so that they shall be dried up. For the land worshippeth images, and delighteth in strange wonderful things.

NET Bible

A drought will come upon her land; her rivers and canals will be dried up. All of this will happen because her land is filled with idols. Her people act like madmen because of those idols they fear.

New Heart English Bible

A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they glory over idols.

The Emphasized Bible

A drought, is against her waters, And they shall be dried up, - For a land of images, it is, And with their shocking things, they act as men who are mad:

Webster

A drouth is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

World English Bible

A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.

Youngs Literal Translation

A sword is on her waters, and they have been dried up, For it is a land of graven images, And in idols they do boast themselves.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חרב 
Choreb 
Usage: 16

and they shall be dried up
יבשׁ 
Yabesh 
Usage: 69

for it is the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

פּסיל 
P@ciyl 
Usage: 23

References

American

Easton

Context Readings

A Message Concerning Babylon

37 A sword is on their horses and their chariots, and on all the mixed people in her midst; and they shall become as women. A sword is to her treasuries, and they shall be robbed. 38 A drought is on her waters; and they shall be dried up. For it is the land of idols, and they act madly with idols. 39 So the beasts of the desert shall dwell there with jackals. And the daughters of the ostrich shall dwell in her again. And it shall not again have anyone in it forever; it shall not be lived in until generation and generation.



Cross References

Isaiah 44:27

who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers;

Jeremiah 50:2

Declare among the nations, and cause them to hear, and lift up a banner. Cause them to hear, do not hide it; say, Babylon is captured, Bel is ashamed, Merodach is broken in pieces; her images are shamed, her idols are broken in pieces.

Jeremiah 51:47

So, behold, the days come that I will punish the idols of Babylon. And all her land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in her midst.

Jeremiah 51:52

So, behold, the days are coming, says Jehovah, that I will punish her idols, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

Revelation 16:12

And the sixth angel poured out his vial on the great river Euphrates. And its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the rising of the sun might be prepared.

Isaiah 44:25

who brings to nothing the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns the wise backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

Isaiah 46:1-7

Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols were on the beasts and on the cattle; the things you carried about have become a load, a burden for the weary.

Jeremiah 50:12

your mother shall be deeply ashamed; she who bore you shall turn pale. Behold, the last of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Jeremiah 51:7

Babylon has been a golden cup in Jehovah's hand, which made all the earth drunk. The nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations rage.

Jeremiah 51:32-36

and that the fords are stopped. And they have burned the reeds with fire, and the men of war are frightened.

Jeremiah 51:44

And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. And the nations shall not flow together any more to him; yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

Daniel 3:1-30

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

Daniel 5:4

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Habakkuk 2:18-19

What does an image profit, for its maker has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of lies? For does the maker trust in his work on it, to make dumb idols?

Acts 17:16

But awaiting them in Athens, Paul's spirit was pained within him, seeing the city full of idols.

Revelation 17:5

And on her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Revelation 17:15-16

And he says to me, The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues,

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