Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
A day of the trumpet and loud noise against the fortified cities, and against the high pinnacles.
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).
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.
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 A day of wrath, that day a day of straits and distress, a day of storm and desolation, a day of darkness and thick darkness, a day of cloud and gloom, 16 A day of the trumpet and loud noise against the fortified cities, and against the high pinnacles. 17 And I pressed upon man, and they went as the blind, because they sinned against Jehovah: and their blood was poured out as dust and their bread as dung.
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Cross References
Isaiah 2:12-15
For the day to Jehovah of armies is upon all the haughty and the high, and upon all lifted up; and he was humbled:
Psalm 48:12-13
Surround ye Zion, and go round about her: recount her towers.
Isaiah 32:14
For the fortress was left, the multitude of the city was forsaken; the hill and the watch-tower for caves even forever; the rejoicing of the wild asses a pasture of the flocks;
Isaiah 59:10
We shall feel for the wall as the blind, and we shall feel, as no eyes: we stumbled at noon as at evening twilight; in fertile fields as the dead.
Jeremiah 4:19-20
My bowels, my bowels! I shall afflict the walls of my heart; my heart made commotion to me; I shall not be silent, for the voice of the trumpet thou didst hear, O my soul, the tumult of war.
Jeremiah 6:1
Be strong, ye sons of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem, and in Tekoa strike the trumpet, and lift up a lifting up upon the house of the vineyard, for evil overhung from the north, and great breaking.
Jeremiah 8:16
From Dan was heard the snorting of his horses; from the voice of the neighings of his strong ones all the land trembled: and they will come and cut up the land, and its fulness; the city and those dwelling in it
Hosea 5:8
Strike the horn upon the hill, and the trumpet upon the height: make a loud noise at the house of vanity after thee, O Benjamin.
Hosea 8:1
The trumpet to thy mouth: as an eagle upon the house of Jehovah, because they passed by my covenant and they transgressed against my laws.
Amos 3:6
If the trumpet shall be struck in the city and the people not be terrified? if evil shall be in the city and Jehovah did not?
Habakkuk 1:6-10
For behold me raising up the Chaldeans, the nation bitter and hasty, going upon the wide places of the land to possess the dwelling not to him.
Habakkuk 3:6
He stood, and he will measure the earth: he saw, and he will cause the nations to tremble, and the mountains of eternity will be dispersed, the perpetual hills bowed down: the goings everlasting to him.