Jeremiah 33:4

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah that have been torn down to defend against the siege ramps and the sword:

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are torn down by the battering rams and by the sword:

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a defence] against the mounds and against the sword;

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Thus (I saye) spake the LORDE God of Israel, concernynge the houses of this cite, and the houses of the kinges of Iuda: that they shalbe broken thorow the ordinaunce and weapens,

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, concerning the houses of this citie, and concerning the houses of the Kings of Iudah, which are destroyed by the mounts, and by the sword,

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Thus I say speaketh the Lorde god of Israel, concerning the houses of this citie, and the houses of the kynges of Iuda that are broken thorowe the ordinaunce and the sworde.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a defense] against the mounds and against the sword;

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    For thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, that are broken down for the mounts, and for the tool;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down `to make a defence' against the mounds and against the sword;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a defence] against the mounds and against the sword;

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and ...;

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a defense] against the mounds and against the sword;

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    For I, the LORD God of Israel, have something more to say about the houses in this city and the royal buildings of Judah which have been torn down for defenses against the siege ramps and military incursions of the Babylonians:

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 32:24 : 24 Look! Siege ramps have arrived to take the city, and it is handed over to the Chaldeans who are fighting against it because of the sword, the famine, and the plague. What You have spoken has come to pass, and You see it happening.
  • Ezek 4:2 : 2 Build siege works against it, construct a ramp, set up camps around it, and place battering rams against it all around.
  • Hab 1:10 : 10 They mock kings, and rulers are a joke to them. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to capture it.
  • Ezek 21:22 : 22 I too will clap My hands, and I will satisfy My wrath. I, the LORD, have spoken.
  • Ezek 26:8 : 8 'Your villages in the countryside will be killed by the sword, and he will build siege walls against you, raise a siege ramp against you, and set up a shield wall against you.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 22Behold, I am giving a command, declares the Lord, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it with fire. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without any inhabitants.

  • 5They are coming to fight the Chaldeans, but only to fill these places with the corpses of those I have slain in my anger and my wrath, for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their evil.

  • 36Now therefore, this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says concerning this city about which you are saying, 'It has been handed over to the king of Babylon through sword, famine, and plague':

  • 2Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the disaster I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Look, they are a ruin today, without anyone living there.

  • 4The LORD said, 'This is what you are to say to him: Behold, what I have built I am tearing down, and what I have planted I am uprooting—the entire land.'

  • Jer 21:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10For I have set my face against this city for disaster and not for good, declares the LORD. It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will burn it with fire.

    11To the house of the king of Judah: Hear the word of the LORD.

  • 8The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and the houses of the people and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 34:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord when Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and all his army, along with all the kingdoms under his dominion and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and all of its cities, saying:

    2This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell Zedekiah, king of Judah, 'This is what the Lord says: I am delivering this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.'

  • 21Yes, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about the articles that remain in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:

  • 15For I am summoning all the clans and kingdoms of the north,' declares the LORD. 'They will come, and each will set up his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, around all her walls, and against all the cities of Judah.

  • 4These are the words the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah:

  • 4"Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I am turning back the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls. I will gather them into the midst of this city.

  • 11For the LORD has given the command: The great house will be shattered into pieces, and the small house into bits.

  • 3This is what the LORD says: This city will surely be handed over to the army of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.

  • 18Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls to stand against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

  • 10You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore down houses to fortify the wall.

  • 19For this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the pillars, the bronze sea, the stands, and the rest of the articles that remain in this city,

  • Jer 5:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10Go up among her rows and destroy them, but do not completely finish them off. Remove her branches, for they do not belong to the Lord.

    11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been thoroughly unfaithful to Me, declares the Lord.

  • Jer 22:5-7
    3 verses
    74%

    5But if you will not listen to these words, I swear by Myself—declares the LORD—that this palace will become a ruin.

    6For this is what the LORD says about the house of the king of Judah: Though you are like Gilead to me, like the peak of Lebanon, yet I will surely make you into a wilderness, uninhabited cities.

    7I will send destroyers against you, each with his weapons. They will cut down your choice cedars and throw them into the fire.

  • 8'Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city; they will capture it and burn it with fire.'

  • 19They burned the house of God, tore down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, destroying all its valuable articles.

  • 15I will strike down the winter house along with the summer house, and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the Lord.

  • 4This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:

  • 1This is what the LORD says: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and deliver this message there.

  • 6So my fury and my anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, making them a desolate ruin, as they are today.

  • 16‘Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am bringing disaster on this place and on its inhabitants—all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read—’

  • 6For this is what the Lord of Hosts says: Cut down trees and build a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; it is filled with oppression.

  • 28Therefore, this is what the LORD says: 'I am about to give this city into the hands of the Chaldeans, into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will capture it.'

  • 3Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

  • 26But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the LORD, this is what you shall say to him: 'This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says concerning the words you heard:

  • 12Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.

  • 14So I will set fire to the wall of Rabbah, and it will consume her palaces amid shouting on the day of battle, with a tempest on the day of the whirlwind.

  • 11Therefore, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I have set my face against you for harm, to cut off all Judah.

  • 24'This is what the LORD says: I am about to bring disaster on this place and its inhabitants, all the curses written in the book that was read in the presence of the king of Judah.

  • 26I looked, and behold, the fertile land was a wilderness, and all its cities were torn down before the LORD, in the heat of His fierce anger.

  • 9"This is what the LORD says: 'In this way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • 3For this is what the LORD says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among thorns.

  • 4For this is what the LORD says: 'I am going to make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies while you watch, and I will hand all Judah over to the king of Babylon, who will take them captive to Babylon or kill them by the sword.

  • 37The peaceful pastures will be silent because of the LORD's fierce anger.

  • 11I will remove sorceries from your hand, and you will have no more soothsayers.

  • 11Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: "An enemy will surround the land, bring down your strength, and plunder your fortresses."

  • 33Therefore, this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with a shield or build a siege ramp against it.

  • 7In this place, I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and at the hands of those who seek their lives. I will give their dead bodies as food to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth.

  • 24Look! Siege ramps have arrived to take the city, and it is handed over to the Chaldeans who are fighting against it because of the sword, the famine, and the plague. What You have spoken has come to pass, and You see it happening.

  • 4The slain will fall in the land of the Chaldeans, those pierced by the sword in her streets.