Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 6:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a lovely and delicate woman. 3 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. 4 Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are lengthening.
Cross References
Luke 19:43
For the days shall come upon you, that your enemies shall cast a bank about you, and surround you, and hem you in on every side,
2 Kings 24:2
And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
2 Kings 24:10-12
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
2 Kings 25:1-4
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it round about.
Jeremiah 4:16-17
Make mention to the nations; behold, proclaim against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
Jeremiah 12:10
Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
Jeremiah 39:1-3
In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
Nahum 3:18
Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: your nobles shall dwell in the dust: your people are scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathers them.