Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Their tents shall they pitch round about her, and every one shall feed his part 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.
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.
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.
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 will liken the daughter of Zion to a fair and tender woman, and to her shall come the shepherds with their flocks. 3 Their tents shall they pitch round about her, and every one shall feed his part with his hand. 4 "Make battle against her!" shall they say. "Arise, let us go up, while it is yet day!" "Alas, the day goeth away, and the night shadows fall down!"
Cross References
Luke 19:43
For the days shall come upon thee; that thy enemies shall cast a bank about thee, and compass thee round and keep thee in on every side;
2 Kings 24:2
And the LORD sent upon him men of war out of Chaldea, out of Syria, out of the Moabites, and from the children of Ammon: and sent them into Judah to destroy it, according to the saying of the LORD which he spake by his servants the Prophets.
2 Kings 24:10-12
In his time came the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to Jerusalem and the city was besieged.
2 Kings 25:1-4
Therefore, in the ninth year of his reign, the tenth day of the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon with all his power to Jerusalem: and pitched against the town and made engines against it on every side.
Jeremiah 4:16-17
Behold, the Heathen give Jerusalem warning, and preach unto her, that her destroyers are coming from far countries. They tell the cities of Judah the same also.
Jeremiah 12:10
Divers herdsmen have broken down my vineyard, and trodden upon my portion. Of my pleasant portion, they have made a wilderness and desert.
Jeremiah 39:1-3
Now when the city of Jerusalem was taken - for in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth Month, came Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon and all his Host, and besieged Jerusalem,
Nahum 3:18
Thy shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria, thy worthies are laid down: thy people is scattered abroad upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them together again.