Parallel Verses

NET Bible

You who have escaped the sword, go, do not delay. Remember the Lord in a faraway land. Think about Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible

You who have escaped the sword,
Depart! Do not stay!
Remember the Lord from afar,
And let Jerusalem come to your mind.

King James Version

Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Holman Bible

You who have escaped the sword,
go and do not stand still!
Remember the Lord from far away,
and let Jerusalem come to your mind.

International Standard Version

Go, you who escaped the sword! Don't stand around! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to your mind.

A Conservative Version

Ye who have escaped the sword, go ye; do not stand still. Remember LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

American Standard Version

Ye that have escaped the sword, go ye, stand not still; remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Amplified


You who have escaped the sword,
Go away! Do not stay!
Remember the Lord from far away,
And let [desolate] Jerusalem come into your mind.

Bible in Basic English

You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.

Darby Translation

Ye that have escaped the sword, go, stand not still: remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Julia Smith Translation

Being saved from the sword, go: ye shall not stand: remember from far off Jehovah, and Jerusalem shall come up upon your heart

King James 2000

You that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Survivors of [the] sword, go! You must not linger! Remember Yahweh from far [away], and let Jerusalem come to your {mind}.

Modern King James verseion

You who have escaped the sword, go away; do not stand still. Remember Jehovah afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Ye that have escaped the sword: haste you, stand not still. Remember the LORD afar off, and think upon Jerusalem:

New Heart English Bible

You who have escaped the sword, go, do not stand still; remember the LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

The Emphasized Bible

Ye that have escaped the sword, depart do not stand still, - Remember, from afar Yahweh, Let, Jerusalem, come up on your heart:-

Webster

Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

World English Bible

You who have escaped the sword, go, don't stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Youngs Literal Translation

Ye escaped of the sword, go on, stand not, Remember ye from afar Jehovah, And let Jerusalem come up on your heart.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּלּט 
Pallet 
Usage: 1

the sword
חרב 
Chereb 
Usage: 413

go away
הלך 
Halak 
go, walk, come, ...away, ...along,
Usage: 1545

the Lord

Usage: 0

רחק רחוק 
Rachowq 
Usage: 85

ירוּשׁלים ירוּשׁלם 
Y@ruwshalaim 
Usage: 642

עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

References

American

Context Readings

A Message Concerning Babylon

49 "Babylon must fall because of the Israelites she has killed, just as the earth's mortally wounded fell because of Babylon. 50 You who have escaped the sword, go, do not delay. Remember the Lord in a faraway land. Think about Jerusalem. 51 We are ashamed because we have been insulted. Our faces show our disgrace. For foreigners have invaded the holy rooms in the Lord's temple.'

Cross References

Jeremiah 44:28

Some who survive in battle will return to the land of Judah from the land of Egypt. But they will be very few indeed! Then the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will know whose word proves true, mine or theirs.'

Deuteronomy 4:29-31

But if you seek the Lord your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.

Jeremiah 51:45

"Get out of Babylon, my people! Flee to save your lives from the fierce anger of the Lord!

Deuteronomy 30:1-4

"When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses I have set before you, you will reflect upon them in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.

Ezra 1:3-5

Anyone from his people among you (may his God be with him!) may go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and may build the temple of the Lord God of Israel -- he is the God who is in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:2-4

Hanani, who was one of my relatives, along with some of the men from Judah, came to me, and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped and had survived the exile, and about Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 2:3-5

I replied to the king, "O king, live forever! Why would I not appear dejected when the city with the graves of my ancestors lies desolate and its gates destroyed by fire?"

Psalm 102:13-14

You will rise up and have compassion on Zion. For it is time to have mercy on her, for the appointed time has come.

Psalm 122:6

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! May those who love her prosper!

Psalm 137:5-6

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand be crippled!

Isaiah 48:20

Leave Babylon! Flee from the Babylonians! Announce it with a shout of joy! Make this known! Proclaim it throughout the earth! Say, 'The Lord protects his servant Jacob.

Isaiah 51:11

Those whom the Lord has ransomed will return; they will enter Zion with a happy shout. Unending joy will crown them, happiness and joy will overwhelm them; grief and suffering will disappear.

Isaiah 52:2

Shake off the dirt! Get up, captive Jerusalem! Take off the iron chains around your neck, O captive daughter Zion!

Isaiah 52:11-12

Leave! Leave! Get out of there! Don't touch anything unclean! Get out of it! Stay pure, you who carry the Lord's holy items!

Jeremiah 29:12-14

When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, I will hear your prayers.

Jeremiah 31:21

I will say, 'My dear children of Israel, keep in mind the road you took when you were carried off. Mark off in your minds the landmarks. Make a mental note of telltale signs marking the way back. Return, my dear children of Israel. Return to these cities of yours.

Jeremiah 50:8

"People of Judah, get out of Babylon quickly! Leave the land of Babylonia! Be the first to depart! Be like the male goats that lead the herd.

Jeremiah 51:6

Get out of Babylonia quickly, you foreign people. Flee to save your lives. Do not let yourselves be killed because of her sins. For it is time for the Lord to wreak his revenge. He will pay Babylonia back for what she has done.

Daniel 9:2-3

in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books that, according to the word of the LORD disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem were seventy in number.

Daniel 9:16-19

O Lord, according to all your justice, please turn your raging anger away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. For due to our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people are mocked by all our neighbors.

Zechariah 2:7-9

"Escape, Zion, you who live among the Babylonians!"

Revelation 18:4

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues,

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