Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

A fruitful land maketh he barren, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

New American Standard Bible

A fruitful land into a salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

King James Version

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Holman Bible

and fruitful land into salty wasteland,
because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

International Standard Version

and a fruitful land into a salty waste, due to the wickedness of its inhabitants.

A Conservative Version

a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.

American Standard Version

A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Amplified


A productive land into a [barren] salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Bible in Basic English

He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

Darby Translation

A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Julia Smith Translation

A land of fruit to saltness, for the evil of those dwelling in it

King James 2000

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Lexham Expanded Bible

a fruitful land into a salty place, because of the evil of its inhabitants.

Modern King James verseion

a fruitful land to a salty desert, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

NET Bible

and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

New Heart English Bible

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

The Emphasized Bible

A Land of Fruit, into a waste of salt, For the wickedness of them who dwell therein.

Webster

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it.

World English Bible

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Youngs Literal Translation

A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּרי 
P@riy 
Usage: 119

ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

מלחה 
M@lechah 
Usage: 3

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

References

Easton

Fausets

Watsons

Context Readings

Thanksgiving To Yahweh For His Of Deliverance

33 which turneth floods into dry land, and drieth up the watersprings! 34 A fruitful land maketh he barren, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. 35 Again, he maketh the wilderness a standing water, and watersprings of a dry ground.

Cross References

Genesis 13:10

Then Lot lift up his eyes, and beheld all the country about Jordan: that it was a plenteous country of water. For, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was round about Zoar, even as the pleasant garden of the LORD, and as the land of Egypt.

Genesis 14:3

All these came together unto the vale of Siddim, which is now the salt sea.

Genesis 13:13

But the men of Sodom were wicked, and sinned exceedingly against the LORD.

Genesis 19:24-25

Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven,

Deuteronomy 29:23-28

how all the land is burnt up with brimstone and salt, that it is neither sown nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, after the overthrowing of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim: which the LORD overthrew in his wrath and anger.

Isaiah 32:13-15

My people's field shall bring thorns and thistles, for in every house is voluptuousness; and in the cities, willfulness.

Ezekiel 47:11

As for his clay and pits, they shall not be whole. For why? It shall be occupied for salt.

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