Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
Parallel translations
- KJV And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
- BSB Then every island fled, and no mountain could be found.
- NKJV Then every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
- NASB And every island fled, and no mountains were found.
- NLT And every island disappeared, and all the mountains were leveled.
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Cross-references · 4
- Rev 6:14The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
- Rev 20:11I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
- Isa 2:14–17For all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up,
- Jer 4:23–25I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
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