Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Parallel translations
- KJV Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
- BSB Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.
- NKJV Yet the land shall be desolate Because of those who dwell in it, And for the fruit of their deeds.
- NASB And the earth will become a wasteland because of her inhabitants, On account of the fruit of their deeds.
- NLT But the land will become empty and desolate because of the wickedness of those who live there.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 3:10–11Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
- Jer 25:11This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- Mic 6:13Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
- Jer 17:10“I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
- Prov 5:22The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
- Isa 6:11–13Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste,
- Isa 24:3–8The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.
- Jer 21:14I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her.’”
- Jer 32:19great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
- Dan 4:26–27Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule.
- Mic 3:12Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
- Luke 21:20–24“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.
- Lev 26:33–39I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
- Gal 6:7–8Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
- Job 4:8According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
- Prov 1:31Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.
- Prov 31:31Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!
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