Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

"I'll scatter you among the nations and draw the sword after you so that your land becomes desolate and your towns become ruins.

New American Standard Bible

You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.

King James Version

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

Holman Bible

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.

A Conservative Version

And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

American Standard Version

And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

Amplified

I will scatter you among the nations and draw out the sword [of your enemies] after you; your land will become desolate and your cities will become ruins.

Bible in Basic English

And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.

Darby Translation

And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be desolation, and your cities waste.

Julia Smith Translation

And I will scatter you among the nations, and I drew out after you a sword: and your land was a desert, and your cities shall be a desolation.

King James 2000

And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword behind you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a ruin.

Modern King James verseion

And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be waste, and your cities waste.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And I will straw you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you, and your land shall be waste, and your cities desolate.

NET Bible

I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

New Heart English Bible

I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

The Emphasized Bible

When, even you, I scatter among the nations, And make bare after you, a sword, Then shall your land become an astonishment, And your cities become a desolation.

Webster

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

World English Bible

I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

Youngs Literal Translation

And you I scatter among nations, and have drawn out after you a sword, and your land hath been a desolation, and your cities are a waste.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And I will scatter
זרה 
Zarah 
Usage: 39

גּי גּוי 
Gowy 
Usage: 558

and will draw out
רוּק 
Ruwq 
Usage: 19

a sword
חרב 
Chereb 
Usage: 413

אחר 
'achar 
Usage: 488

you and your land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

שׁממה שׁממה 
Sh@mamah 
Usage: 57

and your cities
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

Context Readings

Punishment For Disobedience

32 I'll make the land so desolate that your enemies who live in it will be astonished." 33 "I'll scatter you among the nations and draw the sword after you so that your land becomes desolate and your towns become ruins. 34 Then the land will finally be pleased with its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time, the land will rest and take its Sabbaths.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:27

Moreover, the LORD will scatter you among the nations, and you'll be fewer in number in the nations where the LORD your God will drive you.

Ezekiel 20:23

"Futhermore, I solemnly swore in the wilderness to disperse them among the nations and scatter them to other lands

Zechariah 7:14

"I will scatter them to all of the nations, which they have not known.'" Now the earth was left desolate after them. As a result, no one came or went because they had turned a pleasant land into a desert.

Psalm 44:11

You handed us over to be slaughtered like sheep and you scattered us among the nations.

Jeremiah 9:16

I'll scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I'll pursue them with the sword until I've finished them off."

Ezekiel 22:15

I'm going to disperse you among the nations and scatter you to other lands. I'm going to put an end to your uncleanness.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be carried off as captives among all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the unbelievers until the times of the unbelievers are fulfilled."

Deuteronomy 28:64-66

"He'll scatter you among the nations from one end of the earth to the other, and there you'll serve other gods made of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.

Lamentations 1:3

Judah has gone into exile to escape affliction and servitude. She that sat among the nations, has found no rest. All her pursuers overtook her amid narrow passes.

Lamentations 4:15

"Go away! Unclean!" they shouted at them. "Go away! Go away! Don't touch!" When they fled away and wandered, those among the nations decreed, "They cannot live here!"

Ezekiel 12:14-16

I'll scatter every attendant who surrounds him, along with his entire army, to every wind. When I unsheathe my sword to pursue them,

James 1:1

From: James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah. To: The twelve tribes in the Dispersion. Greetings.

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