Parallel Verses
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}.
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.
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.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 6:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
2 The lovely and the delicate, the daughter of Jerusalem, I will destroy. 3 Shepherds and their flocks will come against her, they will pitch [their] tents against her all around, they will pasture, each his {portion}. 4 {Sanctify} war against her. Arise, and let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the day turns, for [the] shadows of evening are lengthened.
Cross References
Luke 19:43
For days will come upon you and your enemies will put up an embankment against you, and will surround you and press you hard from all directions.
2 Kings 24:2
So Yahweh sent against him raiding bands of Chaldeans, raiding bands of Aram, raiding bands of Moab, and raiding bands of the {Ammonites}. He had sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken by the hand of his servants the prophets.
2 Kings 24:10-12
At that time, the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came [to] Jerusalem, and the city came under the siege.
2 Kings 25:1-4
It happened that in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came, he and his army, against Jerusalem. He encamped against it and built siege works against it all around.
Jeremiah 4:16-17
"Report to the nations, 'Here they are!' Proclaim against Jerusalem, 'Besiegers [are] coming {from a distant land}, and they raise their voice against the cities of Judah.'
Jeremiah 12:10
Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled down my plot of land. They have made {my pleasant field} like the desert of desolation.
Jeremiah 39:1-3
In the ninth year of Zedekiah, the king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and laid siege to it.
Nahum 3:18
Your shepherds are sleeping, king of Assyria! Your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains; no one can gather them.