Isaiah 16:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the nations have broken down the principal plants of it, they have come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they have gone over the sea.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    The fields of Heshbon languish, as does the vine of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have struck its choice vines, which reached as far as Jazer, wandered into the wilderness, and spread their shoots abroad, crossing the sea.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    The suburbes also of Hesebon were made waist, & the princes of the Gentyles hewed downe ye vynyardes of Sibma, which were planted with noble grapes, and spred vnto Iazer, and went vnto the ende of the deserte, whose braunches stretched their selues forth beyonde the see.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For ye vineyards of Heshbon are cut downe, and the vine of Sibmah: the lordes of the heathen haue broken the principal vines thereof: they are come vnto Iaazer: they wandred in the wildernesse: her goodly branches stretched out them selues, and went ouer the sea.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For the vines of Hesbon are cut downe: as for the vine of Sibma, the lordes of the heathen haue broken downe her principall braunches, they are come euen vnto Iazer, they went on wandering vnto the wildernesse, her goodly braunches were throwen downe as they went ouer the sea.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come [even] unto Jazer, they wandered [through] the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches of it, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Because fields of Heshbon languish, The vine of Sibmah, Lords of nations did beat her choice vines, Unto Jazer they have come, They have wandered in a wilderness, Her plants have spread themselves, They have passed over a sea.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For the fields of Heshbon languish, `and' the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    For the fields of Heshbon are dried up, as well as the vines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations trample all over its vines, which reach Jazer and spread to the wilderness; their shoots spread out and cross the sea.

Referenced Verses

  • Num 32:38 : 38 And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names to the cities which they built.
  • Isa 15:4 : 4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz; therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous to him.
  • Isa 16:9 : 9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah: I will water you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh: for the shouting for your summer fruits and for your harvest is fallen.
  • Isa 24:7 : 7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
  • Jer 27:6-7 : 6 And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field I have given him also to serve him. 7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his grandson, until the very time of his land comes: and then many nations and great kings shall enslave him.
  • Jer 48:32 : 32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for you with the weeping of Jazer; your plants are gone over the sea, they reach to the sea of Jazer; the spoiler has fallen upon your summer fruits and upon your vintage.
  • Josh 13:19 : 19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the mountain of the valley,
  • Josh 13:25 : 25 And their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is before Rabbah;
  • 2 Sam 1:21 : 21 You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is disdainfully cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
  • Isa 10:7 : 7 Yet he does not mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off not a few nations.
  • Num 32:3 : 3 Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Shebam, Nebo, and Beon,

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  • Isa 16:9-11
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    9Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah: I will water you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh: for the shouting for your summer fruits and for your harvest is fallen.

    10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

    11Therefore my heart shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kirharesh.

  • Jer 48:31-34
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    31Therefore I will howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; my heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.

    32O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for you with the weeping of Jazer; your plants are gone over the sea, they reach to the sea of Jazer; the spoiler has fallen upon your summer fruits and upon your vintage.

    33Joy and gladness are taken from the plentiful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses; none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.

    34From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh and to Jahaz they have uttered their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old; for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.

  • Isa 15:3-8
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    3In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth; on the tops of their houses and in their streets, everyone shall wail, weeping abundantly.

    4And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz; therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous to him.

    5My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee to Zoar, like a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping shall they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

    6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the hay is withered away, the grass fails, there is no green thing.

    7Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, they shall carry away to the brook of the willows.

    8For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beerelim.

  • 7Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab, everyone shall wail: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall you mourn; surely they are stricken.

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    11It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its branches unto the river.

    12Why have you then broken down its hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

    13The boar out of the woods destroys it, and the wild beasts of the field devour it.

  • Isa 33:8-9
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    8The highways lie desolate, the traveler ceases; he has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he regards no man.

    9The earth mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and withered; Sharon is like a wilderness, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

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    10The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the grain is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.

    11Be ashamed, you farmers; howl, you vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.

    12The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languishes; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy has withered away from the sons of men.

  • 28For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it has consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

  • 2For the LORD has turned away the grandeur of Jacob, as the grandeur of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and ruined their vine branches.

  • 12And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut it off and have left it; on the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the peoples of the earth have gone down from its shadow and have left it.

  • 7He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree: he has made it bare and cast it away; its branches are made white.

  • 14And fire has gone out from a rod of her branches, which has devoured her fruit, so that she has no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

  • 45Those who fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force; but a fire shall come out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

  • 30We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even to Dibon, and we have laid them waste even to Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.

  • 9In that day his strong cities shall be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

  • 25And they destroyed the cities, and in every good piece of land each man threw a stone and filled it, and they stopped all the springs of water and cut down all the good trees. Only in Kir Haraseth did they leave its stones intact; however, the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

  • 12They shall lament for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

  • 20Moab is confounded, for it is broken down. Howl and cry; tell it in Arnon, that Moab is plundered.

  • 3Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is destroyed: cry out, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourselves with sackcloth; mourn, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king will go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.

  • 26For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to Arnon.

  • 5For on the ascent of Luhith they will go up with continual weeping; for on the descent of Horonaim, the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

  • 2Howl, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen; because the mighty are destroyed. Howl, O oaks of Bashan, for the forest of the vintage has come down.

  • 10For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

  • 17And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, says the LORD.

  • 17The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

  • 7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.

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    15Moab is plundered, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

    16The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hastens quickly.

    17All you who are around him, bemoan him; and all you who know his name say, 'How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!'

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    10Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trampled My portion underfoot; they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

    11They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns to Me; the whole land is made desolate, because no one lays it to heart.

  • 16Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handles the sickle in the harvest time: for fear of the oppressing sword everyone shall turn to his own people, and they shall flee to their own land.

  • 36Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres, because the riches he has acquired are perished.

  • 32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

  • 6Like valleys they spread out, like gardens by the riverside, like trees of aloes which the LORD has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.