Captivity Threatened
Jeremiah 13:20
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?
- KJV
- Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
- WEB
- Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?
- ASV
- Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
- LSV
- Lift up your eyes, and see those coming in from the north, || Where [is] the drove given to you, your beautiful flock?
- YLT
- Lift up your eyes, and see those coming in from the north, Where [is] the drove given to thee, thy beautiful flock?
- DBY
- Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north. Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
- DRC
- Lift up your eyes, and see, you that come from the north: where is the flock that is given thee, thy beautiful cattle?
- GNV
- Lift vp your eyes and beholde them that come from the North: where is the flocke that was giuen thee, euen thy beautifull flocke?
- JPS
- Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north; where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
- LXXE
- Lift up thine eyes, O Jerusalem, and behold them that come from the north; where is the flock that was given thee, the sheep of thy glory?
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- Written (Ketiv): שְׂאִי (“lift up”). Read aloud (Qere): שְׂא֤וּ (“lift up”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
- Written (Ketiv): וּרְאִי (“and see”). Read aloud (Qere): וּרְא֔וּ (“and see”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
- Leningrad Codex reads שְׂא֤יּ; read aloud (Qere) reads שְׂא֤וּ (“lift up”).
- Leningrad Codex reads וּרְא֔יּ; read aloud (Qere) reads וּרְא֔וּ (“and see”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- שאי עֵֽינֵיכֶם֙ וראי הַבָּאִ֖ים מִצָּפ֑וֹן אַיֵּ֗ה הָעֵ֨דֶר֙ נִתַּן־לָ֔ךְ צֹ֖אן תִּפְאַרְתֵּֽךְ׃Read aloud as (qere): שְׂא֤וּRead aloud as (qere): וּרְא֔וּ
- LXX-Br
- Ἀνάλαβε ὀφθαλμούς σου Ἱερουσαλὴμ, καὶ ἴδε τοὺς ἐρχομένους ἀπὸ Βοῤῥᾶ· ποῦ ἐστι τὸ ποίμνιον ὃ ἐδόθη σοι, πρόβατα δόξης σου;
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Cross-references most cited first
- Jeremiah 6:22This is what the LORD says: “Behold, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is stirred up from the ends of the earth.
- Jeremiah 23:2Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the…
- Jeremiah 1:14Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.
- Habakkuk 1:6For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans — that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.
- Jeremiah 13:17But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
- Acts 20:26–29Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God. Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy…
- Jeremiah 10:22Listen! The sound of a report is coming— a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made a desolation, a haunt for jackals.
- Zechariah 11:16–17For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off…
- Isaiah 56:9–12Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest. Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to…
- Ezekiel 34:7–10Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because My flock lacks a shepherd and has become prey and food for every wild beast, and because My shepherds did not…
- John 10:12–13The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock. The man runs away because he…
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