Parallel Verses

NET Bible

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

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.

Bible in Basic English

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

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

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 We have not been unfaithful, nor have we disobeyed your commands. 19 Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness. 20 If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,

Cross References

Job 3:5

Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

Psalm 23:4

Even when I must walk through the darkest valley, I fear no danger, for you are with me; your rod and your staff reassure me.

Psalm 51:8

Grant me the ultimate joy of being forgiven! May the bones you crushed rejoice!

Job 10:21-22

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

Job 30:29

I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

Psalm 38:8

I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.

Psalm 60:1-3

For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; a prayer of David written to instruct others. It was written when he fought against Aram Naharaim and Aram-Zobah. That was when Joab turned back and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. O God, you have rejected us. You suddenly turned on us in your anger. Please restore us!

Psalm 74:13-14

You destroyed the sea by your strength; you shattered the heads of the sea monster in the water.

Isaiah 27:1

At that time the Lord will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.

Isaiah 34:13-14

Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns; thickets and weeds will grow in her fortified cities. Jackals will settle there; ostriches will live there.

Isaiah 35:7

The dry soil will become a pool of water, the parched ground springs of water. Where jackals once lived and sprawled out, grass, reeds, and papyrus will grow.

Jeremiah 14:17

"Tell these people this, Jeremiah: 'My eyes overflow with tears day and night without ceasing. For my people, my dear children, have suffered a crushing blow. They have suffered a serious wound.

Ezekiel 29:3

Tell them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: "'Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster lying in the midst of its waterways, who has said, "My Nile is my own, I made it for myself."

Matthew 4:16

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned."

Revelation 12:9

So that huge dragon -- the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world -- was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.

Revelation 13:2

Now the beast that I saw was like a leopard, but its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. The dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority to rule.

Revelation 13:11-13

Then I saw another beast coming up from the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but was speaking like a dragon.

Revelation 16:10

Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast so that darkness covered his kingdom, and people began to bite their tongues because of their pain.

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