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Bible in Basic English
A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers.
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.
A Conservative Version
a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
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).
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.
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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 sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark. 16 A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers. 17 And I will send trouble on men so that they will go about like the blind, because they have done evil against the Lord: and their blood will be drained out like dust, and their strength like waste.
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Cross References
Isaiah 2:12-15
For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;
Isaiah 32:14
For the fair houses will have no man living in them; the town which was full of noise will become a waste; the hill and the watchtower will be unpeopled for ever, a joy for the asses of the woods, a place of food for the flocks;
Isaiah 59:10
We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.
Jeremiah 4:19-20
My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.
Jeremiah 6:1
Go in flight out of Jerusalem, so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin, and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great destruction.
Jeremiah 8:16
The loud breathing of the horses comes to our ears from Dan: at the sound of the outcry of his war-horses, all the land is shaking with fear; for they have come, and have made a meal of the land and everything in it; the town and the people living in it.
Hosea 5:8
Let the horn be sounded in Gibeah and in Ramah; give a loud cry in Beth-aven, They are after you, O Benjamin.
Hosea 8:1
Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.
Amos 3:6
If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?
Habakkuk 1:6-10
For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.
Habakkuk 3:6
From his high place he sent shaking on the earth; he saw and nations were suddenly moved: and the eternal mountains were broken, the unchanging hills were bent down; his ways are eternal.