Parallel Verses

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem;
And there was no one 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 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. 4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Cross References

Jeremiah 14:16

And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

Jeremiah 16:4

They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

Psalm 79:10

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.

Psalm 141:7

Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

Jeremiah 8:1-2

At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

Jeremiah 15:3

And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 25:33

And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.

Jeremiah 34:20

I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.

Matthew 23:35

That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

Romans 8:36

As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Revelation 11:9

And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

Revelation 16:6

For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

Revelation 18:24

And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

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