Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

New American Standard Bible

She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste!
Hearts are melting and knees knocking!
Also anguish is in the whole body
And all their faces are grown pale!

King James Version

She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

Holman Bible

Desolation, decimation, devastation!
Hearts melt,
knees tremble,
loins shake,
every face grows pale!

International Standard Version

Nineveh is devastated, deserted, and desolate. Her heart melts, her knees knock. Every stomach is upset, every face grows pale.

A Conservative Version

She is empty, and void, and waste. And the heart melts, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all have grown pale.

American Standard Version

She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.

Amplified


She is emptied! She is desolate and waste!
Hearts melting [in fear] and knees knocking!
Anguish is in the whole body,
And the faces of all grow pale!

Darby Translation

She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and writhing pain is in all loins, and all their faces grow pale.

Julia Smith Translation

She was emptied, and being emptied, and being made empty: and the heart melted, and a wavering of the knees, and trembling in all loins, and the face of them all gathered a glow.

King James 2000

She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees strike together, and much pain is on all sides, and the faces of them all grow pale.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Emptiness and plundering and devastation! Their hearts faint and their knees tremble, {All their loins shake} and all their faces {turn} pale.

Modern King James verseion

She is empty and void and waste; and the heart melts, and the knees knock, and trembling is on all the loins; and all their faces collect heat.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thus must she be spoiled, emptied and clean stripped out: that their hearts may be melted away, their knees tremble, all their loins be weak, and their faces black as a pot.

NET Bible

Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Their hearts faint, their knees tremble, each stomach churns, each face turns pale!

New Heart English Bible

She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

The Emphasized Bible

Emptiness, yea turned to emptiness, aye deserted is she ! with, heart, unnerved, and, a tottering, of knees, and, anguish, in all loins, and, the faces of them all, have withdrawn their colour.

Webster

She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

World English Bible

She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

Youngs Literal Translation

She is empty, yea, emptiness and waste, And the heart hath melted, And the knees have smitten together, And great pain is in all loins, And the faces of all of them have gathered paleness.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
She is empty
בּוּקה 
Buwqah 
Usage: 1

and void
מבוּקה 
M@buwqah 
Usage: 1

and waste
בּלק 
Balaq 
Usage: 2

מסס 
Macac 
Usage: 21

and the knees
בּרך 
Berek 
Usage: 25

פּיק 
Piyq 
Usage: 1

and much pain
חלחלה 
Chalchalah 
Usage: 4

is in all loins
מתן 
Mothen 
Usage: 47

and the faces
פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

קבץ 
Qabats 
Usage: 127

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

Nineveh's Treasures Will Be Taken

9 Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired. 10 Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces. 11 Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?

Cross References

Psalm 22:14

I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

Joel 2:6

At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together.

Isaiah 13:7-8

For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;

Isaiah 21:3

For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.

Isaiah 24:1

See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.

Daniel 5:6

Then the colour went from the king's face, and he was troubled by his thoughts; strength went from his body, and his knees were shaking.

Zephaniah 2:13-15

And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.

Genesis 1:2

And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

Joshua 2:11

And because of this news, our hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in any of us because of you; for the Lord your God is God in heaven on high and here on earth.

Isaiah 13:19-22

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 14:23

And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water: and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of armies.

Isaiah 34:10-15

It will not be put out day or night; its smoke will go up for ever: it will be waste from generation to generation; no one will go through it for ever.

Jeremiah 4:23-26

Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.

Jeremiah 30:6

Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?

Jeremiah 51:62

And after reading them, say, O Lord, you have said about this place that it is to be cut off, so that no one will be living in it, not a man or a beast, but it will be unpeopled for ever.

Nahum 3:7

And it will come about that all who see you will go in flight from you and say, Nineveh is made waste: who will be weeping for her? where am I to get comforters for her?

Zephaniah 3:6

I have had the nations cut off, their towers are broken down; I have made their streets a waste so that no one goes through them: destruction has overtaken their towns, so that there is no man living in them.

Revelation 18:21-23

And a strong angel took up a stone like the great stone with which grain is crushed, and sent it into the sea, saying, So, with a great fall, will Babylon, the great town, come to destruction, and will not be seen any more at all.

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