Jeremiah 3:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

Truly, in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and from the multitude of mountains: truly, in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Surely the false worship on the hills and the commotion on the mountains is a deception. Truly, the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Truly{H403} in vain{H8267} is [the help that is looked for] from the hills,{H1389} the tumult{H1995} on the mountains:{H2022} truly{H403} in Jehovah{H3068} our God{H430} is the salvation{H8668} of Israel.{H3478}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Truly{H403} in vain{H8267} is salvation hoped for from the hills{H1389}, and from the multitude{H1995} of mountains{H2022}: truly{H403} in the LORD{H3068} our God{H430} is the salvation{H8668} of Israel{H3478}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    The hilles fall, and all the hie pryde of the mountaynes, but the health of Israel stondeth only vpon God oure LORDE.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Truly the hope of the hilles is but vaine, nor the multitude of mountaines: but in the Lorde our God is the health of Israel.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Truely, in vayne is health hoped for from the hylles, be they neuer so many: but the health of Israel standeth only vpon God our Lorde.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Truly in vain [is salvation hoped for] from the hills, [and from] the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God [is] the salvation of Israel.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Surely in vain from the heights, The multitude of mountains -- Surely in Jehovah our God `is' the salvation of Israel.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Truly in vain is `the help that is looked for' from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    We know our noisy worship of false gods on the hills and mountains did not help us. We know that the LORD our God is the only one who can deliver Israel.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 121:1-2 : 1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from where comes my help. 2 My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
  • Ps 3:8 : 8 Salvation belongs to the LORD; your blessing is upon your people. Selah.
  • Jer 17:14 : 14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
  • Isa 12:2 : 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also has become my salvation.
  • Isa 43:11 : 11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside Me, there is no savior.
  • Isa 44:9 : 9 Those who make a carved image are all of them vanity; and their delightful things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
  • Isa 45:15 : 15 Truly You are a God who hides Yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
  • Isa 45:17 : 17 But Israel shall be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be ashamed nor confounded forever and ever.
  • Isa 45:20 : 20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge who set up the wood of their carved image, and pray to a god that cannot save.
  • Isa 46:7-8 : 7 They carry him upon the shoulder, they bear him, and set him in his place, and he stands; from his place he shall not move: yes, one shall cry to him, yet he cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble. 8 Remember this, and show yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O you transgressors.
  • Isa 63:1 : 1 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? This one who is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? It is I, who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
  • Isa 63:16 : 16 Doubtless you are our Father, though Abraham is ignorant of us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer; your name is from everlasting.
  • Jer 3:6 : 6 The LORD also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.
  • Jer 10:14-16 : 14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is humiliated by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation, they shall perish. 16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the Maker of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
  • Jer 14:8 : 8 O Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of trouble, why should You be as a stranger in the land, and as a traveler who turns aside to stay for a night?
  • Ezek 20:28 : 28 For when I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provoking of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings.
  • Hos 1:7 : 7 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
  • Jonah 2:8-9 : 8 Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own mercy. 9 But I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
  • John 4:22 : 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
  • Ps 37:39-40 : 39 But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; he is their strength in the time of trouble. 40 And the LORD shall help them and deliver them; he shall deliver them from the wicked and save them, because they trust in him.

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