Isaiah 29:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty; or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    It will be as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, but he wakes and is still hungry; or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, but he wakes and is still faint and craving. So it will be with all the hordes of nations that fight against Mount Zion.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And it shall be as when a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    It is like as when an hungrie man dreameth that he is eatynge, and when he awaketh, he hath nothinge: like as when a thurstie man dreameth that he is drinkinge, and when he awaketh, he is faynt, and his soule vnpacient. So is the multitude of all people, that mustre them selues agaynst the hill of Sion.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And it shalbe like as an hungry man dreameth, and beholde, he eateth: and when he awaketh, his soule is emptie: or like as a thirsty man dreameth, and loe, he is drinking, and when he awaketh, beholde, he is faint, and his soule longeth: so shal the multitude of all nations be that fight against mount Zion.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    In conclusion, it shalbe euen as when a hungry man dreameth that he is eating, and when he awaketh, his soule is emptie, or as when a thirstie man dreameth that he is drinking, and when he awaketh, he is yet fainte, and his soule hath appetite: euen so shall the multitude of all nations that fighteth against mount Sion.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    It shall even be as when an hungry [man] dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, [he is] faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    It shall be as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against Mount Zion.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And it hath been, as when the hungry dreameth, And lo, he is eating, And he hath waked, and empty `is' his soul, And as when the thirsty dreameth, And lo, he is drinking, and he hath waked, And lo, he is weary, and his soul is longing, So is the multitude of all the nations Who are warring against mount Zion.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And it shall be as when a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And it shall be as when a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And it will be like a man desiring food, and dreaming that he is feasting; but when he is awake there is nothing in his mouth: or like a man in need of water, dreaming that he is drinking; but when he is awake he is feeble and his soul is full of desire: so will all the nations be which make war on Mount Zion.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn't satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    It will be like a hungry man dreaming that he is eating, only to awaken and find that his stomach is empty. It will be like a thirsty man dreaming that he is drinking, only to awaken and find that he is still weak and his thirst unquenched. So it will be for the horde from all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 32:21 : 21 And the LORD sent an angel who destroyed all the mighty men of valor and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame on his face to his own land. And when he entered the house of his god, his own sons killed him with the sword there.
  • Ps 73:20 : 20 As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when You wake up, You shall despise their image.
  • Isa 10:7-9 : 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. 8 For he says, Are not my princes altogether kings? 9 Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose carved images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria; 11 Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, also do to Jerusalem and her idols? 12 Therefore, it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. 13 For he says, By the strength of my hand, I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the boundaries of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have brought down the inhabitants like a valiant man; 14 And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathers eggs that are left, I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped. 15 Shall the ax boast against him who cuts with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who shakes it? As if the rod should shake itself against those who lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were not wood. 16 Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory, he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
  • Isa 44:12 : 12 The smith with the tongs both works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails: he drinks no water, and is faint.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 29:5-7
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    5Moreover, the multitude of your strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passes away; yes, it shall be at an instant, suddenly.

    6You shall be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

    7And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

  • 16For as you have drunk on My holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually; yes, they shall drink, and swallow, and they shall be as though they had never been.

  • 9Pause and wonder; cry out and cry: they are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

  • 4For thus has the LORD spoken to me, Like a lion and the young lion roaring over his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor humble himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for Mount Zion, and for its hill.

  • 11Now also are many nations gathered against you, that say, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.'

  • Zech 12:2-3
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    2Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling for all the people around about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

    3And in that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all who burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

  • Zech 14:1-3
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    1Behold, the day of the LORD comes, and your spoil shall be divided in the midst of you.

    2For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women violated; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

    3Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

  • 18And shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer faints.

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    12And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

    13And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall seize everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.

  • 14You shall eat, but not be satisfied; hunger shall be in your midst; you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and what you deliver I will give up to the sword.

  • Isa 8:21-22
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    21And they shall pass through it, hard-pressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

    22And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.

  • 28And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the middle of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

  • 15The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink and make noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar.

  • 9And it shall happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

  • 20And he will snatch on the right hand and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand and not be satisfied; they will eat every man the flesh of his own arm.

  • 13In that day the beautiful virgins and young men shall faint for thirst.

  • 7At that time shall the present be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people scattered and polished, and from a people feared from their beginning until now; a nation divided and trampled under foot, whose land the rivers have ravaged, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, Mount Zion.

  • 17And they shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fortified cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.

  • 14And it will be as the hunted roe, and as a sheep that no man takes up: every man will turn to his own people, and everyone will flee to his own land.

  • 23They shall hold the bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against you, O daughter of Zion.

  • 13When it shall be thus in the midst of the land among the people, it shall be like the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done.

  • 9And he shall pass over to his stronghold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the banner, says the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem.

  • 17Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, who have drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; you have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

  • 20As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when You wake up, You shall despise their image.

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    37And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursues: and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

    38And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

  • 16The LORD also shall roar out of Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake. But the LORD will be the hope of his people and the strength of the children of Israel.

  • 19And say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with desolation, that her land may be desolate from all that is in it, because of the violence of all who dwell therein.

  • 3And I will camp against you all around, and will lay siege against you with a mound, and I will raise forts against you.

  • 2A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the morning spreads upon the mountains: a great and strong people; there has never been anything like it, neither shall there be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

  • 10Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches.

  • 29The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell in it.

  • 12Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  • 6For there shall be a day when the watchmen on Mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up to Zion to the LORD our God.

  • 16Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; those who plunder you shall become plunder, and all who prey upon you I will give for prey.

  • 3The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her all around; they shall feed everyone in his place.

  • 5Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains they shall leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people arrayed for battle.

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    7Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

    8And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

  • 26Yes, those who eat of his delicacies shall destroy him, and his army shall be swept away, and many shall fall down slain.

  • 5For it is a day of trouble and of trampling down and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.

  • 8After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have always been waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

  • 25And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.