| NETBible | Your land is devastated, your cities burned with fire. Right before your eyes your crops are being destroyed by foreign invaders. 1 They leave behind devastation and destruction. 2 |
| NIV © |
Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers. |
| NASB © |
Your land is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire, Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your presence; It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers. |
| NLT © |
Your country lies in ruins, and your cities are burned. As you watch, foreigners plunder your fields and destroy everything they see. |
| MSG © |
Your country is laid waste, your cities burned down. Your land is destroyed by outsiders while you watch, reduced to rubble by barbarians. |
| BBE © |
Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands. |
| NRSV © |
Your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence aliens devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners. |
| NKJV © |
Your country is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire; Strangers devour your land in your presence; And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. |
| KJV | Your country <0776> [is] desolate <08077>_, your cities <05892> [are] burned <08313> (8803) with fire <0784>_: your land <0127>_, strangers <02114> (8801) devour <0398> (8802) it in your presence, and [it is] desolate <08077>_, as overthrown <04114> by strangers <02114> (8801)_. {overthrown...: Heb. the overthrow of} |
| NASB © |
Your land <776> is desolate <8077> , Your cities <5892> are burned <8313> with fire <784> , Your fields <127> --strangers <2114> are devouring <398> them in your presence <5048> ; It is desolation <8077> , as overthrown <4114> by strangers .<2114> |
| LXXM | h <3588> T-NSF gh <1065> N-NSF umwn <4771> P-GP erhmov <2048> N-NSF ai <3588> T-NPF poleiv <4172> N-NPF umwn <4771> P-GP purikaustoi {N-NPM} thn <3588> T-ASF cwran <5561> N-ASF umwn <4771> P-GP enwpion <1799> PREP umwn <4771> P-GP allotrioi <245> A-NPM katesyiousin <2719> V-PAI-3P authn <846> D-ASF kai <2532> CONJ hrhmwtai <2049> V-AMI-3S katestrammenh <2690> V-RMPNS upo <5259> PREP lawn <2992> N-GPM allotriwn <245> A-GPM |
| NET [draft] ITL | Your land <0776> is devastated <08077> , your cities <05892> burned <08313> with fire <0784> . Right before <05048> your eyes your crops <0127> are being destroyed <0398> by foreign invaders <02114> . They leave behind devastation <08077> and destruction .<04114> |
| HEBREW | Myrz <02114> tkphmk <04114> hmmsw <08077> hta <0853> Mylka <0398> Myrz <02114> Mkdgnl <05048> Mktmda <0127> sa <0784> twprv <08313> Mkyre <05892> hmms <08077> Mkura (1:7) <0776> |
| NETBible | Your land is devastated, your cities burned with fire. Right before your eyes your crops are being destroyed by foreign invaders. 1 They leave behind devastation and destruction. 2 |
| NET Notes |
1 tn Heb “As for your land, before you foreigners are devouring it.” 2 tn Heb “and [there is] devastation like an overthrow by foreigners.” The comparative preposition כְּ (kÿ, “like, as”) has here the rhetorical nuance, “in every way like.” The point is that the land has all the earmarks of a destructive foreign invasion because that is what has indeed happened. One could paraphrase, “it is desolate as it can only be when foreigners destroy.” On this use of the preposition in general, see GKC 376 §118.x. Many also prefer to emend “foreigners” here to “Sodom,” though there is no external attestation for such a reading in the |