Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
New American Standard Bible
Against the
And the high corner towers.
King James Version
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
Holman Bible
against the fortified cities,
and against the high corner towers.
International Standard Version
a day of trumpet and battle cry against fortified cites and watch towers.
American Standard Version
a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
Amplified
A day of trumpet and the battle cry [of invaders]
Against the fortified cities
And against the high corner towers (battlements).
Bible in Basic English
A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers.
Darby Translation
a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fenced cities and against the high battlements.
Julia Smith Translation
A day of the trumpet and loud noise against the fortified cities, and against the high pinnacles.
King James 2000
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fortified cities, and against the high towers.
Lexham Expanded Bible
a day of trumpet and [trumpet] blast against the fortified cities and against the high corner towers.
Modern King James verseion
a day of the ram's horn and alarm against the fortified cities, and against the high towers.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
a day of the noise of trumpets and shawmes, against the strong cities and high towers.
NET Bible
a day of trumpet blasts and battle cries. Judgment will fall on the fortified cities and the high corner towers.
New Heart English Bible
a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
The Emphasized Bible
day of horn, and war-shout, - against the fortified cities, and against the high towers.
Webster
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fortified cities, and against the high towers.
World English Bible
a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
Youngs Literal Translation
A day of trumpet and shouting against the fenced cities, And against the high corners.
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Zephaniah 1:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judah's Impending Judgment
15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, 16 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements. 17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against LORD, and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 2:12-15
For there shall be a day of LORD of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low,
Psalm 48:12-13
Walk about Zion, and go round about her. Number the towers of it,
Isaiah 32:14
For the palace shall be forsaken. The populous city shall be deserted. The hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,
Isaiah 59:10
We grope for the wall like the blind. Yea, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the twilight. [We are] as dead men in desolate places.
Jeremiah 6:1
Flee for safety, ye sons of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem. And blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem. For evil looks forth from the north, and a great destruction.
Jeremiah 8:16
The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles. For they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell therein.
Hosea 5:8
Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah. Sound an alarm at Beth-aven, behind thee, O Benjamin.
Hosea 8:1
[Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle [he comes] against the house of LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
Amos 3:6
Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? Shall evil befall a city, and LORD has not done it?
Habakkuk 1:6-10
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.
Habakkuk 3:6
He stood, and measured the earth. He beheld, and drove apart the nations. And the eternal mountains were scattered. The everlasting hills bowed. His goings were [as] of old.