Isaiah 21:4

In 11 translations

BSB

My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.

KJV

My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.heart…: or, mind wanderedturned: Heb. put

WEB

My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

ASV

My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.

LSV

My heart has wandered, trembling has terrified me, || He has made the twilight of my desire a fear to me,

YLT

Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,

DBY

My heart panteth, horror affrighteth me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into trembling unto me.

DRC

My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.

GNV

Mine heart failed: fearefulnesse troubled me: the night of my pleasures hath he turned into feare vnto me.

JPS

My heart is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me; the twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling.

LXXE

My heart wanders, and transgression overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.Lit. baptizes.

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Original-language editions

WLC

תָּעָ֣ה לְבָבִ֔י פַּלָּצ֖וּת בִּֽעֲתָ֑תְנִי אֵ֚ת נֶ֣שֶׁף חִשְׁקִ֔י שָׂ֥ם לִ֖י לַחֲרָדָֽה׃

LXX-Br

Ἡ καρδία μου πλανᾶται, καὶ ἡ ἀνομία με βαπτίζει, ἡ ψυχή μου ἐφέστηκεν εἰς φόβον.

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• Luke 21:34–36But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare. For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of…
• Esther 5:12“What is more,” Haman added, “Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she prepared, and I am invited back tomorrow along with the king.
• Jeremiah 51:57I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
• 1 Samuel 25:36–38When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light. In the morning when Nabal was sober, his wife told…
• Deuteronomy 28:67In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.
• Daniel 5:5At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
• Nahum 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.
• Esther 7:6–10Esther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man—Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen. In his fury, the king arose from drinking his wine and went to the palace garden, while Haman…
• Jeremiah 51:39While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
• Job 21:11–13They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about, singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute. They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
• 2 Samuel 13:28–29Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and…
• Daniel 5:1Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
• Isaiah 5:11–14Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine. At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the…
• Daniel 5:30That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,

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