Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
To her shall come the shepherds and their flocks; they fixed the tents upon her round about; they fed each with his hand.
New American Standard Bible
They will
They will pasture each in his
King James Version
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Holman Bible
they will pitch their tents all around her.
Each will pasture his own portion.
International Standard Version
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her. They'll pitch their tents all around her, and every one will tend his flock in his own place.
A Conservative Version
Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her. They shall pitch their tents against her round about. They shall feed every one in his place.
American Standard Version
Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Amplified
“Shepherds with their flocks will come against her;
They will pitch their tents all around her;
They will pasture, each one in his place [eating up all her rich grasses].
Bible in Basic English
Keepers of sheep with their flocks will come to her; they will put up their tents round her; everyone will get food in his place.
Darby Translation
Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
King James 2000
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his own place.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her, they will pitch [their] tents against her all around, they will pasture, each his {portion}.
Modern King James verseion
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch tents on her all around; they shall feed each one in his hand.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Their tents shall they pitch round about her, and every one shall feed his part with his hand.
NET Bible
Kings will come against it with their armies. They will encamp in siege all around it. Each of them will devastate the portion assigned to him.
New Heart English Bible
Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her all around; they shall feed everyone in his place."
The Emphasized Bible
Against her, shall come shepherds with their flocks; They have pitched against her their tents, round about, They tend their flocks every one near at hand.
Webster
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her on every side; they shall feed every one in his place.
World English Bible
Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her all around; they shall feed everyone in his place."
Youngs Literal Translation
Unto her come do shepherds and their droves, They have stricken tents by her round about, They have fed each in his own station.
Interlinear
Ra`ah
Taqa`
Cabiyb
Ra`ah
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 6:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
2 I likened the daughter of Zion to her becoming and delicate 3 To her shall come the shepherds and their flocks; they fixed the tents upon her round about; they fed each with his hand. 4 Consecrate ye war against her; arise, and we will go up at noon. Wo to us! for the day turned away, for the shadows of the evening will stretch forth.
Cross References
Luke 19:43
For the days shall come upon thee, and thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and keep thee together from all sides,
2 Kings 24:2
And Jehovah will send against him troops of Chaldeans and troops of Aram, and troops of Moab, and troops of the sons of Ammon, and he will send them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah which he spake by the hand of his servants the prophets.
2 Kings 24:10-12
In that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, came up to Jerusalem, and the city will come into siege.
2 Kings 25:1-4
And it will be in the ninth year to his reigning, in the tenth month, in the tenth to the month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel came, he, and all his strength, against Jerusalem, and he will encamp against it, and build a watch tower against her round about.
Jeremiah 4:16-17
Bring ye to remembrance to the nations; behold, cause to be heard against Jerusalem, watchers coming from a land afar off, and they shall give their voice against the cities of Judah.
Jeremiah 12:10
Many shepherds destroyed my vineyard, they trod down my portion, they gave the portion of my desire for a desert of desolation.
Jeremiah 39:1-3
in the ninth year to Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they pressed upon her.
Nahum 3:18
Thy shepherds slumbered, O king of Assur: thy chiefs will lie down: thy people breathed upon the mountains, and none gathering.