Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it.

New American Standard Bible

I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it.

King James Version

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

International Standard Version

I'll make the land so desolate that your enemies who live in it will be astonished."

A Conservative Version

And I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

American Standard Version

And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

Amplified

I will make the land desolate, and your enemies who settle in it will be appalled at it.

Bible in Basic English

And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.

Darby Translation

And I will bring the land into desolation; that your enemies who dwell there in may be astonished at it.

Julia Smith Translation

And I laid the land waste, and your enemies were astonished at it, they dwelling upon it

King James 2000

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies who dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And I myself will lay waste the land, and your enemies who are living in it shall be appalled over it.

Modern King James verseion

And I will turn the land into wasteland. And your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"'And I will bring the land unto a wilderness: so that your enemies which dwell therein shall wonder at it.

NET Bible

I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.

New Heart English Bible

I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

The Emphasized Bible

And, I, will make the land dumb, And your foes that dwell therein shall regard it with dumb amazement:

Webster

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

World English Bible

I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

Youngs Literal Translation

and I have made desolate the land, and your enemies, who are dwelling in it, have been astonished at it.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And I will bring
שׁמם 
Shamem 
Usage: 89

the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

אויב איב 
'oyeb 
Usage: 272

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

References

Verse Info

Context Readings

Punishment For Disobedience

31 I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices. 32 I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it. 33 But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.


Cross References

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble,
a jackals’ den.
I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
an uninhabited place.

Jeremiah 18:16

They have made their land a horror,
a perpetual object of scorn;
everyone who passes by it will be horrified
and shake his head.

Jeremiah 19:8

I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and scoff because of all its wounds.

Jeremiah 25:11

This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for 70 years.

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.

1 Kings 9:8

Though this temple is now exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will mock. They will say: Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?

Jeremiah 25:18

These included:

Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah, its kings and its officials, to make them a desolate ruin, an object of scorn and cursing—as it is today;

Ezekiel 5:15

So you will be a disgrace and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and furious rebukes. I, Yahweh, have spoken.

Deuteronomy 29:23-28

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in His fierce anger.

Isaiah 1:7-8

Your land is desolate,
your cities burned with fire;
foreigners devour your fields
before your very eyes—
a desolation demolished by foreigners.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland.
It will not be pruned or weeded;
thorns and briers will grow up.
I will also give orders to the clouds
that rain should not fall on it.

Isaiah 5:9

I heard the Lord of Hosts say:

Indeed, many houses will become desolate,
grand and lovely ones without inhabitants.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “Until when, Lord?” And He replied:

Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants,
houses are without people,
the land is ruined and desolate,

Isaiah 24:1

Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare
and making it desolate.
He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:

Isaiah 32:13-14

for the ground of my people
growing thorns and briers,
indeed, for every joyous house in the joyful city.

Isaiah 64:10

Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 25:38

He has left His den like a lion,
for their land has become a desolation
because of the sword of the oppressor,
because of His burning anger.

Jeremiah 44:2

“This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought against Jerusalem and all Judah’s cities; look, they are a ruin today without an inhabitant in them

Jeremiah 44:22

The Lord can no longer bear your evil deeds and the detestable acts you have committed, so your land has become a waste, a desolation, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as you see today.

Lamentations 4:12

ל LamedThe kings of the earth
and all the world’s inhabitants did not believe
that an enemy or adversary
could enter Jerusalem’s gates.

Lamentations 5:18

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate
and has jackals prowling in it.

Ezekiel 33:28-29

I will make the land a desolate waste, and its proud strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, with no one passing through.

Daniel 9:2

In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet that the number of years for the desolation of Jerusalem would be 70.

Daniel 9:18

Listen, my God, and hear. Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city called by Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You based on our righteous acts, but based on Your abundant compassion.

Habakkuk 3:17

Though the fig tree does not bud
and there is no fruit on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,

Luke 21:20

“When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that its desolation has come near.

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