Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“They have also cast lots for My people,
Traded a boy for a harlot
And sold a girl for wine that they may drink.

King James Version

And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

Holman Bible

They cast lots for My people;
they bartered a boy for a prostitute
and sold a girl for wine to drink.

International Standard Version

They cast lots for my people they sold a young boy in exchange for a prostitute, and a girl for wine, so they could drink."

A Conservative Version

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

American Standard Version

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Amplified


“They have also cast lots for My people,
And have traded a boy for a prostitute
And have sold a girl for wine that they may drink.

Bible in Basic English

And they have put the fate of my people to the decision of chance: giving a boy for the price of a loose woman and a girl for a drink of wine.

Darby Translation

and they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it.

Julia Smith Translation

And for my people they cast the lot: and they will give the boy for a harlot, and they sold the girl for wine; and they will drink

King James 2000

And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For my people they cast lots, and {they traded} the male child for the prostitute, and the female child they sold for wine and they drank [it].

Modern King James verseion

And they have cast lots for My people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, so that they might drink.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Yea, they have cast lots for my people, the young men have they set in the brothel house, and sold the damsels for wine, that they might have to drink.

NET Bible

and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.

New Heart English Bible

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

The Emphasized Bible

And, for my people, they cast lots, - and gave a boy for a harlot, and a girl sold they for wine - and drank.

Webster

And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

World English Bible

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Youngs Literal Translation

And for My people they do cast a lot, And they give the young man for an harlot, And the young woman have sold for wine, That they may drink.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ידד 
Yadad 
Usage: 3

גּרל גּורל 
Gowral 
lot
Usage: 77

for my people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

and have given
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

a boy
ילד 
Yeled 
Usage: 89

for an harlot
זנה 
Zanah 
Usage: 93

and sold
מכר 
Makar 
sell, seller, at all
Usage: 80

a girl
ילדּה 
Yaldah 
Usage: 3

יין 
Yayin 
Usage: 140

References

American

Easton

Context Readings

Yahweh's Judgment On The Nations

2 I will gather together all the Gentiles, and will cause them to descend into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and there I will enter into judgment with them because of my people and of my heritage Israel, whom they scattered among the nations, and parted my land. 3 “They have also cast lots for My people,
Traded a boy for a harlot
And sold a girl for wine that they may drink.
4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense upon your own head;

Cross References

Amos 2:6

Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Israel and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they sold the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes,

Obadiah 1:11

In the day that thou didst stand on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.

Nahum 3:10

Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her nobles were bound in chains.

2 Chronicles 28:8-9

And the sons of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, in addition to taking much spoil from them, which they brought to Samaria.

Revelation 18:13

and cinnamon and odours and ointments and frankincense and wine and oil and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and of sheep, and of horses, and of chariots and of bodies and souls of men.

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