Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is my companion, says LORD of hosts. Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

New American Standard Bible

“Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,
And against the man, My Associate,”
Declares the Lord of hosts.
Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered;
And I will turn My hand against the little ones.

King James Version

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

Holman Bible

Sword, awake against My shepherd,
against the man who is My associate—
this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
I will also turn My hand against the little ones.

International Standard Version

"Arise, sword, against my shepherd, against the mighty one who is related to me," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. "Strike the shepherd, the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn against the insignificant ones.

American Standard Version

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

Amplified


“Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,
And against the Man, My Associate,”
Declares the Lord of hosts.
“Strike the Shepherd so that the sheep [of the flock] may be scattered;
And I will turn My hand and stretch it out against the little ones [of the flock].

Bible in Basic English

Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.

Darby Translation

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, even against the man that is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered, and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

Julia Smith Translation

O sword, be raised up against my shepherd, and against the man of my fellowship, says Jehovah of armies: strike the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered; and I turned back my hand upon the little ones.

King James 2000

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is close to me, says the LORD of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"O sword, awake against my shepherd, against [the] man [who is] my associate," {declares} Yahweh of hosts. "Strike the shepherd, so that the sheep may be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the small [ones].

Modern King James verseion

Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the Man who is My companion, says Jehovah of Hosts; strike the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn My hand on the little ones.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Arise, O thou sword, upon my shepherd, and upon the prince of my people, sayeth the LORD of Hosts: Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad, and so will I turn mine hand to the little ones.

NET Bible

"Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate," says the Lord who rules over all. Strike the shepherd that the flock may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the insignificant ones.

New Heart English Bible

"Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me," says the LORD of hosts. "Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

The Emphasized Bible

O Sword! awake against my shepherd, even against the man that is my companion, urgeth Yahweh of hosts, - Smite the shepherd, and let the flock, be scattered, Howbeit I will turn back my hand over the little ones.

Webster

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

World English Bible

"Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me," says Yahweh of Armies. "Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Youngs Literal Translation

Sword, awake against My shepherd, And against a hero -- My fellow, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. Smite the shepherd, and scattered is the flock, And I have put back My hand on the little ones.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עוּר 
`uwr 
Usage: 80

O sword
חרב 
Chereb 
Usage: 413

and against the man
גּבר 
Geber 
Usage: 65

that is my fellow
עמית 
`amiyth 
Usage: 12

נאם 
N@'um 
Usage: 376

the Lord

Usage: 0

of hosts
צבאה צבא 
Tsaba' 
Usage: 483

נכה 
Nakah 
Usage: 501

the shepherd
רעה 
Ra`ah 
Usage: 171

and the sheep
צאון צאןo 
Tso'n 
Usage: 274

and I will turn
שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

Context Readings

God's People Cleansed

6 And [a man] shall say to him, What are these wounds between thine arms? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. 7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is my companion, says LORD of hosts. Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn my hand upon the little ones. 8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die, but the third shall be left in it.

Cross References

Isaiah 40:11

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those who have their young.

Matthew 26:31

Then Jesus says to them, All ye will be caused to stumble by me in this night, for it is written, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.

Mark 14:27

And Jesus says to them, All ye will be caused to stumble by me this night, because it is written, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.

Zechariah 11:7

So I fed the flock of slaughter, truly the poor of the flock. And I took to me two staves, the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands, and I fed the flock.

Jeremiah 23:5-6

Behold, the days come, says LORD, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

Jeremiah 47:6

O thou sword of LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? Put up thyself into thy scabbard. Rest, and be still.

Ezekiel 37:24

And my servant David shall be king over them, and they all shall have one shepherd. They shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.

Micah 5:2

But thou, Bethlehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee he shall come forth to me who is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

Isaiah 9:6

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given. And the government shall be upon his shoulder. And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 53:4-10

Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

Ezekiel 21:4-5

Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword shall go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north.

Ezekiel 34:23-24

And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David. He shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

Daniel 9:24-26

Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and pr

Micah 5:4

And he shall stand, and shall feed [his flock] in the strength of LORD, in the majesty of the name of LORD his God, and they shall abide. For now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.

Zechariah 11:4

Thus said LORD my God: Feed the flock of slaughter,

Matthew 11:27

All things were delivered to me by my Father. And no man knows the Son, except the Father, nor does any man know the Father, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son wants to reveal him.

Mark 14:50

And having forsook him, they all fled.

John 1:1-2

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 10:30

I and the Father are one.

John 16:32

Behold, the hour comes, and now has come, that ye will be scattered, each man to his own things, and ye will leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

Romans 4:25

who was delivered up for our offences, and was raised up for our justification.

2 Corinthians 5:21

For the man who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Hebrews 13:20

Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of an eternal covenant--our Lord Jesus--

1 Peter 3:18

Because Christ also once suffered for sins, a righteous man for unrighteous men, so that he might bring you to God. Having indeed been killed in flesh, but made alive in spirit,

1 John 4:9-10

By this the love of God was made known in us, because God sent his Son, the only begotten, into the world so that we might live through him.

Revelation 1:8

I am the Alpha and the Omega, says Lord, the God who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty.

Deuteronomy 32:41-42

if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.

Psalm 2:2

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against LORD, and against his anointed, [saying],

Isaiah 27:1

In that day LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.

Ezekiel 21:9-10

Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says LORD: Say, A sword, a sword. It is sharpened, and also furbished.

Ezekiel 21:28

And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says lord LORD concerning the sons of Ammon, and concerning their reproach. And say thou, A sword, a sword is drawn. It is polished for the slaughter, to cause it to devour, that it may

Hosea 12:3-5

In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he had strength with God.

Zechariah 11:11

And it was broken in that day, and thus the poor of the flock who gave heed to me knew that it was the word of LORD.

Matthew 1:23

Behold, the virgin will have in her womb, and will bring forth a son. And they will call his name Immanuel, which is, being interpreted, God with us.

Matthew 10:42

And whoever may give to drink one of these little ones merely a cold cup in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you he will, no, not lose his reward.

Matthew 18:10

See that ye not disparage one of these little ones, for I say to you, that in the heavens their agents do always behold the face of my Father in the heavens.

Matthew 18:14

So, it is not a purpose before your Father in the heavens, that one of these little ones should perish.

Matthew 26:56

But all this has come to pass, so that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples fled, having forsook him.

Luke 12:32

Fear not, little flock, because your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.

Luke 17:2

It is better for him if a donkey-powered millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

John 1:29

On the morrow John sees Jesus coming to him, and he says, Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

John 3:14-17

And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up,

John 5:17-18

But Jesus answered them, My Father works until now and I work.

John 5:23

so that all would honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. The man not honoring the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I am.

John 10:10-18

The thief comes not, except that he might steal and kill and destroy. I came so that they might have life, and have it more abundantly.

John 10:38

But if I am doing them, even though ye do not believe me, believe the works, that ye may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the him.

John 14:1

Let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me.

John 14:9-11

Jesus says to him, Have I been so long a time with you, and thou do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. And how can thou say, Show us the Father?

John 14:23

Jesus answered and said to him, If any man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make a dwelling with him.

John 16:15

All things, as many as the Father has are mine. Because of this I said that he takes from me, and will report to you.

John 17:21-23

so that they may all be one, just as thou, Father, are in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou sent me.

John 18:8-9

Jesus answered, I told you that I am. If therefore ye seek me, allow these men to go,

Acts 2:23

this man, having been designated (by the purpose and foreknowledge of God) a man delivered up, ye, having taken by lawless hands, killed, having crucified,

Acts 4:26-28

The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.

Romans 3:24-26

being made righteous freely by his grace, through the redemption in Christ Jesus,

Romans 5:6-10

For while we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the impious.

Romans 8:32

He who did not even spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?

Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is every man who hangs on a tree.

Philippians 2:6

who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God something to seize and hold.

Colossians 1:15-20

who is an image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Hebrews 1:6-12

And again when he brings the firstborn into the world he says, And let all the agents of God worship him.

Hebrews 10:5-10

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering thou did not desire, but thou prepared for me a body.

1 Peter 1:18-20

Knowing that ye were redeemed from your vain behavior inherited from fathers, not with perishable silver or gold,

1 Peter 2:24-25

Who himself took up our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live to the righteousness of him from whose wound ye were healed.

1 Peter 5:4

And when the chief Shepherd is made known, ye will receive the unfading crown of glory.

1 John 2:2

And he is the atonement for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

Revelation 1:11

saying, What thou see, write in a book and send to the seven congregations: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

Revelation 1:17

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not, I am the first and the last,

Revelation 2:23

And I will kill her children in death. And all the congregations will know that I am he who searches the inner feelings and hearts. And I will give to you--to each--according to your works.

Revelation 13:8

And all who dwell upon the earth will worship it, whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb who was killed from the foundation of the world.

Revelation 21:6

And he said to me, I have become, I, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him who is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life freely.

Revelation 22:13-16

I, the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

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