Judgment on Damascus
Jeremiah 49:25
In 10 translations
- BSB
- How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?
- KJV
- How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
- WEB
- How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
- ASV
- How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
- LSV
- How it is not left—the city of praise, || The city of My joy!
- YLT
- How is it not left — the city of praise, The city of my joy!
- DBY
- How is not the town of praise forsaken, the city of my joy!
- DRC
- How have they forsaken the city of renown, the city of joy!
- GNV
- How is the glorious citie not reserued, the citie of my ioy?
- JPS
- 'How is the city of praise left unrepaired, the city of my joy?'
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- Written (Ketiv): תְּהִלָּה (“praise”). Read aloud (Qere): תְּהִלָּ֑ת (“praise”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads תְּהִלָּ֑ה; read aloud (Qere) reads תְּהִלָּ֑ת (“praise”).
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אֵ֥יךְ לֹֽא־עֻזְּבָ֖ה עִ֣יר תהלה קִרְיַ֖ת מְשׂוֹשִֽׂי׃Read aloud as (qere): תְּהִלָּ֑ת
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Cross-references most cited first
- Jeremiah 33:9So this city will bring Me renown, joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I do for it. They will tremble in awe because of all the goodness and prosperity that I will…
- Jeremiah 51:41How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
- Revelation 18:10In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
- Revelation 18:16–19saying: “Woe, woe to the great city, clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls! For in a single hour such fabulous wealth has been destroyed!” Every shipmaster,…
- Psalms 37:35–36I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree, yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
- Jeremiah 48:2There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.
- Daniel 4:30the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
- Jeremiah 48:39“How shattered it is! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule and horror to all those around him.”
- Isaiah 14:4–6you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended! The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers. It struck the peoples…
- Isaiah 1:26I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”
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