Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Now also many nations are gathered against you, who say, Let her be defiled, and let our eyes look on Zion.
New American Standard Bible
Who say, ‘Let her be polluted,
And let our eyes
King James Version
Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
Holman Bible
they say, “Let her be defiled,
and let us feast our eyes on Zion.”
International Standard Version
"Now many nations have gathered against you, saying, "Let her be defiled,' and "Let's look down on Zion.'
A Conservative Version
And now many nations are assembled against thee, who say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see [our desire] upon Zion.
American Standard Version
And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see our desire upon Zion.
Amplified
“Now many [conquering] nations are assembled against you,
Who say, ‘Let her be profaned [through Gentile presence and the temple’s destruction],
And let our eyes gaze on and gloat over Zion.’
Bible in Basic English
And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.
Darby Translation
And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be profaned, and let our eye look upon Zion.
Julia Smith Translation
And now many nations were gathered against thee, saying, She shall be defiled, and our eyes shall look upon Zion.
King James 2000
Now also many nations are gathered against you, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And now, many nations are gathered against you who are saying, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.'
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Now also are there many people gathered together against thee, saying that Zion is cursed: "We shall see our lust upon her."
NET Bible
Many nations have now assembled against you. They say, "Jerusalem must be desecrated, so we can gloat over Zion!"
New Heart English Bible
Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, "Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion."
The Emphasized Bible
Meanwhile, therefore, shall be gathered against thee many nations, - who are saying - Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.
Webster
Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
World English Bible
Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, "Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion."
Youngs Literal Translation
And now, gathered against thee have been many nations, who are saying: 'Let her be defiled, and our eyes look on Zion.'
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Micah 4:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
From Exile To Victory
10 Be in pain and deliver, daughter of Zion, like one giving birth. For now you shall go out from the city, and you shall dwell in the field; and you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be snatched back; there Jehovah shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies. 11 Now also many nations are gathered against you, who say, Let her be defiled, and let our eyes look on Zion. 12 But they do not know the plans of Jehovah, nor do they understand His counsel. For He has gathered them like the sheaf to the floor.
Cross References
Obadiah 1:12
But you should not have looked on the day of your brother on the day of his alienation; nor should you have rejoiced over the sons of Judah in the day of their ruin; nor should you have enlarged your mouth in the day of distress.
Isaiah 5:25-30
Therefore the anger of Jehovah is kindled on His people, and He has stretched out His hand against them, and has stricken them; and the hills trembled, and their dead bodies were as filth in the midst of the streets. In all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
Micah 7:10
Then my enemy shall see it; and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is Jehovah your God? My eyes shall behold her; now she shall be trampled like the mud of the streets.
Isaiah 8:7-8
And therefore, behold, the Lord brings on them the waters of the River, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory. And he shall come up over all his channels and go over all his banks.
Jeremiah 52:4
And it happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it and built forts against it all around.
Lamentations 2:15-16
All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city which they called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?
Joel 3:2-15
I will also gather all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will fight with them there for My people and for My inheritance Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and divided My land.