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 Take the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the riches; honour, more than all the desirable furniture. 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 What of the dwelling of the lions and of the feeding place of the young lions where the lion and the lioness walked and the lion's whelps, and no one made them afraid?

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 in the midst of my bowels.

Joel 2:6

Before him the peoples shall fear: all faces shall go pale.

Isaiah 13:7-8

Therefore all hands shall be faint, and every heart of man shall melt:

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold upon me as the pangs of a woman that travails; I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

Isaiah 24:1

Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it naked and turns it upside down and scatters abroad its inhabitants.

Daniel 5:6

Then the king became pale, and his thoughts troubled him, and the girdings of his loins were unloosed, and his knees smote one against another.

Zephaniah 2:13-15

And he will stretch out his hand over the north wind and destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation and dry like a wilderness.

Genesis 1:2

And the earth was without order, and empty; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Joshua 2:11

Hearing this has melted our heart, neither has there remained any more spirit in any man because of you, for the LORD your God is God above in the heavens and in the earth beneath.

Isaiah 13:19-22

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 14:23

I will also make it a possession for the bittern and pools of water, and I will sweep it with brooms of destruction, saith the LORD of the hosts.

Isaiah 34:10-15

It shall not be quenched night nor day; its smoke shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; no one shall pass through it for ever and ever.

Jeremiah 4:23-26

I beheld the earth, and, behold, it was without order, and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light.

Jeremiah 30:6

Ask now, and see whether the man doth travail with child? for I have seen that every man has his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail; and all faces have turned pale.

Jeremiah 51:62

then thou shalt say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that no one shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

Nahum 3:7

And it shall come to pass, that all those that look upon thee shall flee from thee and say, Nineveh is laid waste; who will bemoan her? from where shall I seek comforters for thee?

Zephaniah 3:6

I have caused the Gentiles to be cut off: their castles are desolate; I made their streets waste until no one passes by; their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man left, there is no inhabitant.

Revelation 18:21-23

And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with impetus shall that great city Babylon be thrown down and shall be found no more at all.

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