Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem;
And there was no one to bury them.

King James Version

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

Holman Bible

They poured out their blood
like water all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them.

International Standard Version

to make their blood flow like water around Jerusalem, with no one being buried.

A Conservative Version

They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

American Standard Version

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.

Amplified


They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem,
And there was no one to bury them.

Darby Translation

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

Julia Smith Translation

They poured out their blood as water round about Jerusalem; and none burying.

King James 2000

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

Lexham Expanded Bible

They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was none to bury [them].

Modern King James verseion

They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and none to bury.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Their blood have they shed like water on every side of Jerusalem, and there was no man to bury them.

NET Bible

They have made their blood flow like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.

New Heart English Bible

Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

The Emphasized Bible

They have poured out their blood like water, Round about Jerusalem, With none to bury.

Webster

Their blood have they shed like water around Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

World English Bible

Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

Youngs Literal Translation

They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying.

References

Watsons

Context Readings

Faith Amid Confusion

2 They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the heavens for food, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth. 3 They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem;
And there was no one to bury them.
4 We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.

Cross References

Jeremiah 14:16

And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them--them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them.

Jeremiah 16:4

They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.

Psalm 79:10

Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!

Psalm 141:7

As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

Jeremiah 8:1-2

"At that time, declares the LORD, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs.

Jeremiah 15:3

I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 25:33

"And those pierced by the LORD on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.

Jeremiah 34:20

And I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives. Their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

Romans 8:36

As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."

Revelation 11:9

For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,

Revelation 16:6

For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!"

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.When I saw her, I marveled greatly.

Revelation 18:24

And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on earth."

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