Isaiah 3:24

KJV1611 – Modern English

And it shall come to pass, that instead of a sweet smell there shall be stench; instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well-styled hair, baldness; instead of a rich robe, a binding of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Instead of perfume, there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well-set hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And in steade of good smell there shalbe stynck amonge them. And for their gyrdles there shalbe lowse bondes. And for wellset hayre there shalbe baldnesse. In steade of a stomacher, a sack cloth, and for their bewty wythrednesse and sonneburnynge.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And in steade of sweete sauour, there shall be stinke, and in steade of a girdle, a rent, and in steade of dressing of the heare, baldnesse, and in steade of a stomacher, a girding of sackecloth, and burning in steade of beautie.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And in steade of good smell there shalbe stincke, and in steade of their girdle a rent, and for well set heere there shalbe baldnesse, in steade of a stomacher a sacke cloth, & sunne burnyng for beautie.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And it shall come to pass, [that] instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; [and] burning instead of beauty.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; Instead of a belt, a rope; Instead of well set hair, baldness; Instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; And branding instead of beauty.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And it hath been, instead of spice is muck, And instead of a girdle, a rope, And instead of curled work, baldness, And instead of a stomacher a girdle of sackcloth.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    A putrid stench will replace the smell of spices, a rope will replace a belt, baldness will replace braided locks of hair, a sackcloth garment will replace a fine robe, and a prisoner’s brand will replace beauty.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 22:12 : 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.
  • Lam 2:10 : 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, and keep silence: they have thrown dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
  • Ezek 27:31 : 31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
  • Isa 15:3 : 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth; on the tops of their houses and in their streets, everyone shall wail, weeping abundantly.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all waists, and baldness upon every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
  • Mic 1:16 : 16 Make yourself bald, and cut off your hair for your delicate children; enlarge your baldness like the eagle; for they have gone into captivity from you.
  • 1 Pet 3:3 : 3 Let your beauty not be the outward adornment of braiding hair, wearing gold, or putting on apparel;
  • Esth 2:12 : 12 Now when every maid's turn had come to go in to King Ahasuerus, after she had completed twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for thus were the days of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet fragrances, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
  • Job 16:15 : 15 I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in the dust.
  • Prov 7:17 : 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
  • Prov 31:24 : 24 She makes fine linen and sells it, and delivers sashes to the merchant.
  • Isa 4:4 : 4 When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and has purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning.
  • Isa 32:9-9 : 9 Rise up, you women who are at ease; hear my voice, you careless daughters; give ear to my speech. 10 In many days and years you shall be troubled, you careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. 11 Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones: strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your waists.
  • Isa 57:9 : 9 And you went to the king with ointment, and increased your perfumes, and sent your messengers far off, and debased yourself even unto hell.
  • Jer 4:8 : 8 For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
  • Jer 6:26 : 26 O daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make lamentation, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
  • Jer 48:37 : 37 For every head shall be bald and every beard clipped; upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
  • Jer 49:3 : 3 Howl, 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.
  • Rev 11:3 : 3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
  • Rev 16:9 : 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent to give Him glory.
  • Rev 18:9 : 9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her, shall mourn and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning,
  • Ezek 7:18 : 18 They shall also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
  • Lev 26:16 : 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
  • Deut 28:22 : 22 The LORD shall strike you with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.
  • Deut 32:24 : 24 They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
  • Joel 1:8 : 8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

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