Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

When they are diminished and bowed down
Through oppression, misery and sorrow,

King James Version

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

Holman Bible

When they are diminished and are humbled
by cruel oppression and sorrow,

International Standard Version

But they became few in number, and humiliated by continued oppression, agony, and sorrow.

A Conservative Version

Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

American Standard Version

Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

Amplified


When they are diminished and bowed down (humbled)
Through oppression, misery, and sorrow,

Bible in Basic English

And when they are made low, and crushed by trouble and sorrow,

Darby Translation

And they are diminished and brought low, through oppression, adversity, and sorrow:

Julia Smith Translation

And they will be diminished and brought low from oppression, evil and grief

King James 2000

Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

Lexham Expanded Bible

When they become few and they are bent down from [the] oppression of calamity and grief,

Modern King James verseion

Again, they have become few, and humbled through harshness, affliction, and sorrow.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

When they are minished and brought low through oppression, through any plague or trouble,

NET Bible

As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering.

New Heart English Bible

Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

The Emphasized Bible

So have they become few and been brought low, By oppression, misfortune, and sorrow;

Webster

Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

World English Bible

Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

Youngs Literal Translation

And they are diminished, and bow down, By restraint, evil, and sorrow.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
and brought low
שׁחח 
Shachach 
Usage: 21

עצר 
`otser 
Usage: 3

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Thanksgiving To Yahweh For His Of Deliverance

38 Also He blesses them and they multiply greatly,
And He does not let their cattle decrease.
39 When they are diminished and bowed down
Through oppression, misery and sorrow,
40 He pours contempt upon princes
And makes them wander in a pathless waste.


Cross References

2 Kings 10:32

In those days the Lord began to cut off portions from Israel; and Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:

Genesis 45:11

There I will also provide for you, for there are still five years of famine to come, and you and your household and all that you have would be impoverished.”’

Exodus 1:13-14

The Egyptians compelled the sons of Israel to labor rigorously;

Exodus 2:23-24

Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their bondage rose up to God.

Judges 6:3-6

For it was when Israel had sown, that the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the sons of the east and go against them.

Ruth 1:20-21

She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

1 Samuel 2:5-7

“Those who were full hire themselves out for bread,
But those who were hungry cease to hunger.
Even the barren gives birth to seven,
But she who has many children languishes.

2 Kings 4:8

Now there came a day when Elisha passed over to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman, and she persuaded him to eat food. And so it was, as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat food.

2 Kings 8:3

At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines; and she went out to appeal to the king for her house and for her field.

2 Kings 13:7

For he left to Jehoahaz of the army not more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and 10,000 footmen, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

2 Kings 13:22

Now Hazael king of Aram had oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

2 Kings 14:26

For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, which was very bitter; for there was neither bond nor free, nor was there any helper for Israel.

2 Chronicles 15:5-6

In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for many disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.

Job 1:10-17

Have You not made a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

Psalm 30:6-7

Now as for me, I said in my prosperity,
“I will never be moved.”

Jeremiah 51:33-34

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor
At the time it is stamped firm;
Yet in a little while the time of harvest will come for her.”

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