Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“Nevertheless Kain will be consumed;
How long will Asshur keep you captive?”

King James Version

Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

Holman Bible

Kain will be destroyed
when Asshur takes you captive.

International Standard Version

Nevertheless, Kain will be incinerated. How long will it take until Asshur takes you hostage?"

A Conservative Version

Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

American Standard Version

Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, Until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

Amplified


“Nevertheless the Kenites will be consumed.
How long will Asshur (Assyria) keep you (Israel) captive?”

Bible in Basic English

But still the Kenites will be wasted, till Asshur takes you away prisoner.

Darby Translation

But the Kenite shall be consumed, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

Julia Smith Translation

For if Cain shall be for consuming, how long shall Assyria take thee captive?

King James 2000

Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry you away captive.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Nevertheless, [the] Kenite will be burned; how long will Asshur keep you captive?"

Modern King James verseion

But the Kenites shall be wasted until Assyria shall carry you away captive.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Neverthelater, thou shalt be a burning to Kain, until Assyria take thee prisoner."

NET Bible

Nevertheless the Kenite will be consumed. How long will Asshur take you away captive?"

New Heart English Bible

Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive."

The Emphasized Bible

Yet shall it be for destruction, O Kain, - How long shall Assyria hold thee captive?

Webster

Nevertheless, the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asher shall carry thee away captive.

World English Bible

Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive."

Youngs Literal Translation

But the Kenite is for a burning; Till when doth Asshur keep thee captive?'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
קין 
Qayin 
Usage: 19

אם 
'im 
Usage: 999

be wasted
בּער 
Ba`ar 
Usage: 94

אשּׁר אשּׁוּר 
'Ashshuwr 
Usage: 152

References

Context Readings

Balaam Continues To Utter Oracles

21 And he looked on the Kenite and took up his parable and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock; 22 “Nevertheless Kain will be consumed;
How long will Asshur keep you captive?”
23 And he took up his parable again and said, Alas, who shall live when God shall do these things!

Cross References

Genesis 10:11

Out of that land went forth Asshur, who built Nineveh and the city Rehoboth and Calah

Genesis 10:22

The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

Ezra 4:2

then they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of the fathers and said unto them, Let us build with you, for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon, king of Assur, who brought us up here.

Psalm 83:8

Assur also is joined with them: they are an arm unto the sons of Lot. Selah.

Hosea 14:3

Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods, for in thee the fatherless finds mercy.

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