Zechariah 7:14

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

'I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. The land was left so desolate behind them that no one could come or go. This is how they made the pleasant land a wasteland.'

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    but scatered them amonge all Gentiles, whom they knewe not. Thus the londe was made so desolate, yt there traualed no man in it nether to ner fro, for that pleasaunt londe was vtterly layed waist.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Bnt I scattered them among al the nations, whom they knew not: thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they layd the pleasant land waste.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    But scattred them among al the nations whom they knew not: Thus the land was made so desolate after them, that there trauayled no man in it neither to nor fro: for that plesaunt lande was vtterly layd waste.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    "but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And I toss them on all the nations, That they have not known, The land hath been desolate behind them, Of any passing by and turning back, And they set a desirable land for a desolation!

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    ‘Rather, I will sweep them away in a storm into all the nations they are not familiar with.’ Thus the land had become desolate because of them, with no one crossing through or returning, for they had made the fruitful land a waste.”

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:33 : 33 A people you don’t know will eat the fruit of your land and the result of your labor. You will be oppressed and crushed continually.
  • Deut 28:64 : 64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.
  • Jer 23:19 : 19 Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone forth in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.
  • Deut 4:27 : 27 The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will lead you.
  • Zeph 3:6 : 6 I have cut off nations; their corner towers are in ruins. I have laid waste their streets, so that no one passes through. Their cities are destroyed; there is no one left—no inhabitant.
  • Zech 2:6 : 6 I asked, 'Where are you going?' And he replied, 'To measure Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.'
  • Zech 9:14 : 14 Then the LORD will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Sovereign LORD will sound the trumpet and march forth in the storms of the south.
  • Jer 4:11-12 : 11 At that time, it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A scorching wind from the barren heights of the desert blows toward the daughter of my people—not to winnow or cleanse. 12 A wind too strong for these will come from me; now I will also pronounce judgments against them.
  • Jer 5:15 : 15 Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from far away, O house of Israel, declares the Lord. It is a mighty nation, an ancient nation, one whose language you do not know and whose speech you cannot understand.
  • Jer 25:32-33 : 32 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'Disaster is spreading from nation to nation; a great storm is being stirred up from the ends of the earth.' 33 On that day, those slain by the LORD will be scattered from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried; they will be like dung lying on the ground.
  • Jer 30:23 : 23 Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone forth in fury—a raging tempest. It will swirl down on the heads of the wicked.
  • Jer 36:19 : 19 The officials said to Baruch, "You and Jeremiah must hide, and don’t let anyone know where you are."
  • Jer 44:6 : 6 So 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.
  • Jer 52:30 : 30 and in his twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, exiled 745 Jews. In total, 4,600 people were taken away.
  • Dan 8:9 : 9 Out of one of them came a little horn, which grew exceedingly great toward the south, the east, and the Beautiful Land.
  • Dan 9:16-18 : 16 O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, let Your anger and wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain. For because of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and Your people have become an object of scorn to all those around us. 17 Now, our God, hear the prayer and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, Lord, let Your face shine on Your desolate sanctuary. 18 Incline Your ear, my God, and hear. Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our pleas before You on account of our righteousness, but because of Your great mercy.
  • Amos 1:14 : 14 So 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.
  • Nah 1:3 : 3 The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; he will not leave the guilty unpunished. His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of his feet.
  • Hab 3:14 : 14 With his own weapons You pierced the heads of his warriors, who came like a storm to scatter me, gloating as though ready to devour the afflicted in secret.
  • 2 Chr 36:21 : 21 This happened to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the time of its desolation it rested, to fulfill seventy years.
  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Like a slug that melts away as it moves, like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.
  • Isa 17:13 : 13 The nations roar like the crashing of mighty waters, but He rebukes them, and they flee far away. They are driven like chaff on the mountains before the wind, like tumbleweed before a storm.
  • Isa 21:1 : 1 This is a prophecy about the wilderness by the sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, it comes from the desert, from a dreadful land.
  • Deut 28:49 : 49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand.
  • Lev 26:22 : 22 I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted.
  • Lev 26:33 : 33 I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you. Your land will be desolate and your cities will lie in ruins.
  • Isa 66:15 : 15 For behold, the Lord will come with fire, and His chariots will be like a whirlwind, to bring down His wrath in fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 36:19
    81%

    19I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the lands. I judged them according to their ways and their deeds.

  • Jer 9:16
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    16This is what the Lord of Hosts says: 'Consider and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilled wailing women to arrive.'

  • Lev 26:32-33
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    32I will bring the land to desolation so that even your enemies who live there will be appalled by it.

    33I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you. Your land will be desolate and your cities will lie in ruins.

  • Mic 7:13
    80%

    13The land will become desolate because of its inhabitants, due to the fruit of their deeds.

  • Jer 13:24
    79%

    24Therefore, I will scatter them like chaff driven by the wind of the desert.

  • Jer 15:7
    79%

    7I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land; I have bereaved and destroyed My people, yet they have not turned from their ways.

  • Ezek 12:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    14I will scatter all who are around him—his helpers and all his troops—to every wind, and I will draw my sword after them.

    15Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.

  • Jer 12:11
    77%

    11They have made it a desolation, and it mourns before me. The whole land is desolate, but no one takes it to heart.

  • Ezek 6:14
    77%

    14I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land a desolate wasteland, from the wilderness to Diblah—wherever they live. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

  • Jer 18:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    16They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn. All who pass by it are appalled and shake their heads.

    17Like an east wind, I will scatter them before their enemies. I will show them My back and not My face on the day of their calamity.

  • Isa 6:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11Then I said, "For how long, Lord?" And He replied, "Until cities lie ruined without inhabitants, houses are unoccupied, and the land is desolate and devastated.

    12The LORD will drive the people far away, and the abandonment in the land will be great.

  • Ezek 20:23
    76%

    23I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands,

  • Isa 13:14
    76%

    14Like a hunted gazelle, like sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his own land.

  • Ezek 22:15
    75%

    15I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you throughout the lands, and I will cleanse you from your impurity.

  • 2 Chr 7:20
    75%

    20then I will uproot you from My land that I have given you, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

  • Deut 4:27
    75%

    27The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will lead you.

  • Ezek 15:8
    75%

    8I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the Lord GOD.

  • Zeph 3:6
    75%

    6I have cut off nations; their corner towers are in ruins. I have laid waste their streets, so that no one passes through. Their cities are destroyed; there is no one left—no inhabitant.

  • Zech 7:13
    75%

    13'Just as I called, and they did not listen, so when they call, I will not listen,' says the LORD of Hosts.

  • Ezek 34:6
    75%

    6My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My flock was scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.

  • Ezek 5:14
    75%

    14I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

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    75%

    15“Go away! You are unclean!” people shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” When they fled and wandered, the nations said, “They can stay here no longer.”

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    75%

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    75%

    16Therefore say: This is what the Lord God says: Although I have sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary for them for a little while in the lands to which they have gone.

  • 2 Kgs 21:14
    75%

    14I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and give them into the hands of their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil for all their enemies,

  • Ezek 33:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    28I will make the land a desolate waste, and its proud strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, with no one passing through.

    29Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I make the land a desolate waste because of all the detestable things they have done.

  • Jer 24:9
    74%

    9I will make them a horror and an object of calamity among all the kingdoms of the earth—a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I drive them.

  • Jer 44:22
    74%

    22Because the LORD could no longer endure the wickedness of your actions and the detestable things you committed, your land became a ruin, a desolation, and a curse, without inhabitants, as it is today.

  • Jer 29:18
    74%

    18I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse and an object of astonishment, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations where I have banished them.

  • Jer 4:27
    74%

    27For this is what the LORD says: The whole land will be a desolation, but I will not bring it to complete destruction.

  • Jer 9:10
    74%

    10I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants.

  • Jer 12:14
    74%

    14This is what the LORD says: 'As for all my evil neighbors who harm the inheritance I gave my people Israel, I will uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.'

  • Hos 7:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12As they go, I will spread my net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the sky. I will discipline them as their assembly has heard.

    13Woe to them because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them, but they speak lies about me.

  • Ezek 30:7
    74%

    7They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie in ruins among ruined cities.

  • Isa 1:7
    74%

    7Your land is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your presence, foreigners devour your fields. It is desolate, as if overthrown by strangers.

  • Jer 25:37
    74%

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

  • Ezek 7:24
    74%

    24I will bring the most evil of nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the mighty, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.

  • Hos 8:7
    74%

    7For they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it will yield no flour. Even if it does produce, strangers will swallow it up.

  • 1 Kgs 9:7
    73%

    7then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. Israel will then become a proverb and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

  • 1 Kgs 14:15
    73%

    15The LORD will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they made Asherah poles, angering the LORD.

  • Deut 32:26
    73%

    26I said I would scatter them and erase their memory from mankind,

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    73%

    27The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct and judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

  • Ps 106:27
    73%

    27to make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

  • Amos 9:9
    73%

    9For behold, I am giving the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes a sieve, but not a single pebble shall fall to the ground.