Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

New American Standard Bible

Yet You have crushed us in a place of jackals
And covered us with the shadow of death.

King James Version

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Holman Bible

But You have crushed us in a haunt of jackals
and have covered us with deepest darkness.

International Standard Version

Nevertheless, you crushed us in the lair of jackals, and covered us in deep darkness.

A Conservative Version

that thou have greatly broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

American Standard Version

That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

Amplified


Yet You have [distressingly] crushed us in the place of jackals
And covered us with [the deep darkness of] the shadow of death.

Darby Translation

Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Julia Smith Translation

For thou didst crush us in the place of jackals, and thou wilt cover over us with the shadow of death.

King James 2000

Though you have severely broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But you have crushed us in a place of jackals, and have covered us with deep shadow.

Modern King James verseion

though You have crushed us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

no, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death

NET Bible

Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.

New Heart English Bible

Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

The Emphasized Bible

That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow.

Webster

Though thou hast severely broke us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shades of death.

World English Bible

Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Youngs Literal Translation

But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.

References

Easton

Hastings

Smith

Context Readings

Israel's Complaint

18 Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way; 19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade. 20 If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

Cross References

Job 3:5

Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

Psalm 51:8

Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.

Job 10:21-22

Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

Job 30:29

I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.

Psalm 60:1-3

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

Psalm 74:13-14

The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken.

Isaiah 27:1

In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.

Isaiah 34:13-14

And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.

Isaiah 35:7

And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.

Jeremiah 14:17

And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow.

Ezekiel 29:3

Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself.

Matthew 4:16

The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.

Revelation 13:2

And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority.

Revelation 13:11-13

And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and his voice was like that of a dragon.

Revelation 16:10

And the fifth let what was in his vessel come out on the high seat of the beast; and his kingdom was made dark; and they were biting their tongues for pain.

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