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Bible in Basic English

And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies.

New American Standard Bible

All the nations will call you blessed, for you shall be a delightful land,” says the Lord of hosts.

King James Version

And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.

Holman Bible

“Then all the nations will consider you fortunate, for you will be a delightful land,” says the Lord of Hosts.

International Standard Version

"Then all the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

A Conservative Version

And all nations shall call you blessed, for ye shall be a delightful land, says LORD of hosts.

American Standard Version

And all nations shall call you happy; for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Amplified

“All nations shall call you happy and blessed, for you shall be a land of delight,” says the Lord of hosts.

Darby Translation

And all nations shall call you blessed; for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Julia Smith Translation

And all nations pronounced you happy, for ye shall be a land of delight, said Jehovah of armies.

King James 2000

And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a delightful land, says the LORD of hosts.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"And all the nations will call you blessed, because you will be {a land in which one takes joy}," says Yahweh of hosts.

Modern King James verseion

And all nations shall call you blessed; for you shall be a delightful land, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Insomuch that all people shall say that ye be blessed, for ye shall be a pleasant land, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

NET Bible

"All nations will call you happy, for you indeed will live in a delightful land," says the Lord who rules over all.

New Heart English Bible

"All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land," says the LORD of hosts.

The Emphasized Bible

So shall all the nations, pronounce you happy, - for, ye, shall become, a land of delight, saith Yahweh of hosts.

Webster

And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.

World English Bible

"All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land," says Yahweh of Armies.

Youngs Literal Translation

And declared you happy have all the nations, For ye are a delightful land, said Jehovah of Hosts.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּי גּוי 
Gowy 
Usage: 558

אשׁר אשׁר 
'ashar 
Usage: 16

ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

the Lord

Usage: 0

References

American

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

An Overflowing Blessing

11 And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies 12 And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies. 13 Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?

Cross References

Isaiah 61:9

And their seed will be noted among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples: it will be clear to all who see them that they are the seed to which the Lord has given his blessing.

Isaiah 62:4

You will not now be named, She who is given up; and your land will no longer be named, The waste land: but you will have the name, My pleasure is in her, and your land will be named, Married: for the Lord has pleasure in you, and your land will be married.

Deuteronomy 4:6-7

So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people.

Deuteronomy 8:7-10

For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;

Deuteronomy 11:12

A land cared for by the Lord your God: the eyes of the Lord your God are on it at all times from one end of the year to the other.

2 Chronicles 32:23

And great numbers came to Jerusalem with offerings for the Lord, and things of great price for Hezekiah, king of Judah: so that he was honoured among all nations from that time.

Psalm 72:17

May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name.

Jeremiah 33:9

And this town will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who, hearing of all the good which I am doing for them, will be shaking with fear because of all the good and the peace which I am doing for it.

Daniel 8:9

And out of one of them came another horn, a little one, which became very great, stretching to the south and to the east and to the beautiful land.

Daniel 11:41

And he will come into the beautiful land, and tens of thousands will be overcome: but these will be kept from falling into his hands: Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon.

Zephaniah 3:19-20

See, at that time I will put an end to all who have been troubling you: I will give salvation to her whose steps are uncertain, and get together her who has been sent in flight; and I will make them a cause of praise and an honoured name in all the earth, when I let their fate be changed.

Zechariah 8:23

This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.

Luke 1:48

For he has had pity on his servant, though she is poor and lowly placed: and from this hour will all generations give witness to the blessing which has come to me.

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