Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

New American Standard Bible

You give us as sheep to be eaten
And have scattered us among the nations.

King James Version

Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

Holman Bible

You hand us over to be eaten like sheep
and scatter us among the nations.

International Standard Version

You handed us over to be slaughtered like sheep and you scattered us among the nations.

A Conservative Version

Thou have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

American Standard Version

Thou hast made us like sheep appointed for food, And hast scattered us among the nations.

Amplified


You have made us like sheep to be eaten [as mutton]
And have scattered us [in exile] among the nations.

Darby Translation

Thou hast given us over like sheep appointed for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations;

Julia Smith Translation

Thou wilt give us as sheep for food, and thou didst scatter us among the nations.

King James 2000

You have given us like sheep appointed for food; and have scattered us among the nations.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You have given us as sheep [for] food, and among the nations you have scattered us.

Modern King James verseion

You have given us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep, and scatterest us among the Heathen.

NET Bible

You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations.

New Heart English Bible

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

The Emphasized Bible

Thou dost give us up like sheep to be devoured, And, amongst the nations, hast thou scattered us.

Webster

Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for food; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

World English Bible

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Israel's Complaint

10 Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves. 11 You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations. 12 You let your people go for nothing; your wealth is not increased by their price.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:27

And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.

Deuteronomy 28:64

And the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other: there you will be servants to other gods, of wood and stone, gods of which you and your fathers had no knowledge.

Romans 8:36

As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction.

2 Kings 17:6

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and took Israel away to Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes.

Psalm 14:4

Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

Psalm 60:1

By the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken; make it strong again, for it is moved.

Psalm 106:27

That their children might be mixed among the nations, and sent away into other lands.

Isaiah 11:11-12

And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands.

Jeremiah 12:3

But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.

Jeremiah 32:37

See, I will get them together from all the countries where I have sent them in my wrath and in the heat of my passion and in my bitter feeling; and I will let them come back into this place where they may take their rest safely.

Ezekiel 34:12

As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is among his wandering sheep, so I will go looking for my sheep, and will get them safely out of all the places where they have been sent wandering in the day of clouds and black night.

Luke 21:24

And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.

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