Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
Parallel translations
- KJV Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
- BSB May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.
- ESV May their camp be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents.
- NKJV Let their dwelling place be desolate; Let no one live in their tents.
- NASB May their camp be desolated; May there be none living in their tents.
- NLT Let their homes become desolate and their tents be deserted.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Acts 1:20For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his habitation be made desolate. Let no one dwell therein;’ and, ‘Let another take his office.’
- Matt 23:38Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
- Jer 7:12–14“But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
- Isa 6:11Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste,
- Luke 13:35Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”
- Matt 24:1–2Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.
- 1 Kgs 9:8Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’
- Isa 5:1Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
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