Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste!
Hearts are melting and knees knocking!
Also anguish is in the whole body
And all their faces are grown pale!

King James Version

She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

Holman Bible

Desolation, decimation, devastation!
Hearts melt,
knees tremble,
loins shake,
every face grows pale!

International Standard Version

Nineveh is devastated, deserted, and desolate. Her heart melts, her knees knock. Every stomach is upset, every face grows pale.

A Conservative Version

She is empty, and void, and waste. And the heart melts, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all have grown pale.

American Standard Version

She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.

Amplified


She is emptied! She is desolate and waste!
Hearts melting [in fear] and knees knocking!
Anguish is in the whole body,
And the faces of all grow pale!

Bible in Basic English

Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

Darby Translation

She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and writhing pain is in all loins, and all their faces grow pale.

Julia Smith Translation

She was emptied, and being emptied, and being made empty: and the heart melted, and a wavering of the knees, and trembling in all loins, and the face of them all gathered a glow.

King James 2000

She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees strike together, and much pain is on all sides, and the faces of them all grow pale.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Emptiness and plundering and devastation! Their hearts faint and their knees tremble, {All their loins shake} and all their faces {turn} pale.

Modern King James verseion

She is empty and void and waste; and the heart melts, and the knees knock, and trembling is on all the loins; and all their faces collect heat.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thus must she be spoiled, emptied and clean stripped out: that their hearts may be melted away, their knees tremble, all their loins be weak, and their faces black as a pot.

NET Bible

Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Their hearts faint, their knees tremble, each stomach churns, each face turns pale!

New Heart English Bible

She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

The Emphasized Bible

Emptiness, yea turned to emptiness, aye deserted is she ! with, heart, unnerved, and, a tottering, of knees, and, anguish, in all loins, and, the faces of them all, have withdrawn their colour.

Webster

She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

World English Bible

She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

Youngs Literal Translation

She is empty, yea, emptiness and waste, And the heart hath melted, And the knees have smitten together, And great pain is in all loins, And the faces of all of them have gathered paleness.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
She is empty
בּוּקה 
Buwqah 
Usage: 1

and void
מבוּקה 
M@buwqah 
Usage: 1

and waste
בּלק 
Balaq 
Usage: 2

מסס 
Macac 
Usage: 21

and the knees
בּרך 
Berek 
Usage: 25

פּיק 
Piyq 
Usage: 1

and much pain
חלחלה 
Chalchalah 
Usage: 4

is in all loins
מתן 
Mothen 
Usage: 47

and the faces
פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

קבץ 
Qabats 
Usage: 127

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

Nineveh's Treasures Will Be Taken

9 Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things. 10 She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste!
Hearts are melting and knees knocking!
Also anguish is in the whole body
And all their faces are grown pale!
11 Where is the lions' den, the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and lioness went, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?

Cross References

Psalm 22:14

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;

Joel 2:6

Before them peoples are in anguish; all faces grow pale.

Isaiah 13:7-8

Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every human heart will melt.

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

Isaiah 24:1

Behold, the LORD will empty the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

Daniel 5:6

Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.

Zephaniah 2:13-15

And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.

Genesis 1:2

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Joshua 2:11

And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the LORD your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.

Isaiah 13:19-22

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.

Isaiah 14:23

"And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," declares the LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 34:10-15

Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.

Jeremiah 4:23-26

I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.

Jeremiah 30:6

Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale?

Jeremiah 51:62

and say, 'O LORD, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.'

Nahum 3:7

And all who look at you will shrink from you and say, Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her? Where shall I seek comforters for you?

Zephaniah 3:6

"I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.

Revelation 18:21-23

Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more;

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