Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

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 air, and the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the land. 3 Their blood have they shed like water on every side of Jerusalem, and there was no man to bury them. 4 We are become an open shame unto our enemies, a very scorn and derision unto them that are round about us.


Cross References

Jeremiah 14:16

and the people to whom they have preached shall be cast out of Jerusalem; die of hunger; and be slain with the sword. And there shall be no man to bury them, both they and their wives, their sons and their daughters. For thus will I pour their wickedness upon them.

Jeremiah 16:4

They shall die a horrible death: and no man shall mourn for them, nor bury them, but they shall lie as dung upon the earth. They shall perish through the sword, and hunger, and their bodies shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and beasts of the earth.

Psalm 79:10

Wherefore shall the heathen say, "Where is now their God?" O let the vengeance of thy servant's blood that is shed, be openly showed upon the heathen in our sight.

Psalm 141:7

Our bones lie scattered before the pit, like as when one graveth and diggeth up the ground.

Jeremiah 8:1-2

At the same time, sayeth the LORD, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of his princes, the bones of the priests and prophets, yea, and the bones of the citizens of Jerusalem, shall be brought out of their graves

Jeremiah 15:3

For I will bring four plagues upon them, sayeth the LORD. The sword shall strangle them, the dogs shall devour them, the fowls of the air, and beasts of the earth shall eat them up, and destroy them.

Jeremiah 25:33

And the same day shall the LORD himself slay them, from one end of the earth to another. There shall no moan be made for any of them, none gathered up, none buried: but shall lie as dung upon the ground.

Jeremiah 34:20

Those men will I give into the power of their enemies, and into the hands of them that follow upon their lives. And their dead bodies shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and beasts of the field.

Matthew 23:35

that upon you may come all the righteous blood that was shed upon the earth: from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zachariah the son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar:

Romans 8:36

As it is written, "For thy sake are we killed all day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain."

Revelation 11:9

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

Revelation 16:6

for they shed out the blood of saints, and prophets, and therefore hast thou given them blood to drink: for they are worthy."

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the wife drunken with the blood of saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with great marvel.

Revelation 18:24

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

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