Isaiah 37:18

New Life Version

It is true, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations and their lands.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Lord, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated all these countries and their lands.

Hebrew Names Version
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Ashshur have laid waste all the countries, and their land,

King James Version
Of a truth, Lord , the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,

English Standard Version
Truly, O Lord , the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,

New American Standard Bible
"Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries and their lands,

New Century Version
"It is true, Lord , that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these countries and their lands.

Amplified Bible
"It is true, O LORD, that the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries and their lands,

World English Bible
Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Trueth it is, O Lord, that the Kings of Asshur haue destroyed all lands, & their countrey,

Legacy Standard Bible
Truly, O Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste to all the countries and their lands

Berean Standard Bible
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all these countries and their lands.

Contemporary English Version
It is true, our Lord , that Assyrian kings have turned nations into deserts.

Complete Jewish Bible
It is true that the kings of Ashur have laid waste all the countries and their lands

Darby Translation
Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands, and their countries,

Easy-to-Read Version
It is true, Lord . The kings of Assyria did destroy all those nations.

George Lamsa Translation
Of a truth, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands;

Good News Translation
We all know, Lord , that the emperors of Assyria have destroyed many nations, made their lands desolate,

Lexham English Bible
Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands and their land,

Literal Translation
Truly, O Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands, and their land,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
It is true (o LORDE) that the kinges of Assiria haue coquered all kingdomes & londes,

American Standard Version
Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land,

Bible in Basic English
Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all the nations and their lands,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land,

King James Version (1611)
Of a trueth, Lord, the kings of Assyria haue laid waste all the nations and their countreys,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
It is true O Lorde that the kynges of Assyria haue conquered all kyngdomes and landes,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For of a truth, Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste the whole world, and the countries thereof,

English Revised Version
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For verili, Lord, the kyngis of Assiriens maden londis dissert, and the cuntreis of tho, and yauen the goddis of tho to fier;

Update Bible Version
Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries,

Webster's Bible Translation
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,

New English Translation
It is true, Lord , that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations and their lands.

New King James Version
Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,

New Living Translation
"It is true, Lord , that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these nations.

New Revised Standard
Truly, O Lord , the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
who hath sent - to reproach a Living God. Of a truth, O Yahweh, - the kings of Assyria have devoted to destruction all the countries, and their land;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste lands, and their countries.

Revised Standard Version
Of a truth, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,

Young's Literal Translation
`Truly, O Jehovah, kings of Asshur have laid waste all the lands and their land,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have devastated all the countries and their lands,

Contextual Overview

⁸ Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish. ⁹ Now the king had heard them say about King Tirhakah of Cush, "He has come out to fight against you." When he heard it, he sent men to Hezekiah, saying, ¹⁰ "Tell Hezekiah king of Judah, ‘Do not let your God in Whom you trust fool you, saying, "Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." ¹¹ See, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands. They have destroyed them all. So will you be kept from trouble? ¹² Did the gods of those nations which my fathers have destroyed take them out of trouble? Did they save Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar? ¹³ Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?'" ¹⁴ Then Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the men from Assyria, and read it. He went up to the house of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord. ¹⁵ And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, ¹⁶ "O Lord of All, the God of Israel, Who sits on the throne above the cherubim, You are the God, You alone, of all the nations of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. ¹⁷ Listen, O Lord, and hear. Open Your eyes, O Lord, and see. Listen to all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to speak against the living God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the kings: 2 Kings 15:29, 2 Kings 16:9, 2 Kings 17:6, 2 Kings 17:24, 1 Chronicles 5:26, Nahum 2:11, Nahum 2:12

nations: Heb. lands

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 18:34 - the gods 2 Kings 19:18 - for they were 2 Chronicles 32:13 - I and my Psalms 97:7 - Confounded Isaiah 36:18 - Hath Isaiah 36:20 - that the Lord Isaiah 37:11 - General Isaiah 40:19 - General Isaiah 44:9 - and their Nahum 3:19 - upon

Cross-References

Genesis 37:14
Then Israel said, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock. Then come and tell me." So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

Genesis 37:15
A man found him walking through a field, and asked him, "What are you looking for?"

1 Samuel 19:1
Now Saul told Jonathan his son and all his servants to kill David. But Saul's son Jonathan found much joy in David.

Psalms 31:13
For I have heard many say things to hurt me. Fear is on every side. They planned together against me. They thought of ways to take away my life.

Psalms 37:12
The sinful man plans against him who is right with God. And he grinds his teeth at him.

Psalms 37:32
The sinful lie in wait for the man who is right with God, and want to kill him.

Psalms 94:21
They join together against the life of those who are right and good. They send those who are not guilty to their death.

Psalms 105:25
He turned their hearts to hate His people and to make plans against His servants.

Psalms 109:4
I give them my love but they speak against me in return. But I am in prayer.

Matthew 21:38
When the farmers saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the one who will get everything when the owner dies. Let us kill him and we will get it all.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Of a truth Lord,.... This is a truth and will be readily owned what the king of Assyria has said that his ancestors have destroyed all lands, or at least have endeavoured to do it, and have had it in their hearts to do it:

the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries: or "all the lands and their land" m; the Targum is,

"all provinces and their lands;''

the countries and town and villages in them, or the chief cities and villages round about them.

m כל הארצות ואת ארצם "omnes terras, et terram eorum", Pagninus, Montanus; "vel terram inquam eorum", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Of a truth - It is as he has said, that all the nations had been subjected to the arms of the Assyrian. He now intends to add Jerusalem to the number of vanquished cities and kingdoms, and to boast; that he has subdued the nation under the protection of Yahweh, as he had done the nations under the protection of idol-gods.

Have laid waste all, the nations - Hebrew, as Margin, ‘All the lands.’ But this is evidently an elliptical form of expression, meaning all the inhabitants or people of the lands. In 2 Kings 19:17, it is thus expressed. ‘The kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.’

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 37:18. The nations — הארצות haratsoth, "the lands;" instead of this word, which destroys the sense, ten of Kennicott's and five of De Rossi's MSS. (one ancient) have here גוים goyim, "nations;" which is undoubtedly the true reading, being preserved also in the other copy; 2 Kings 19:17. Another MS. suggests another method of rectifying the sense in this place, by reading מלכם malcam, "their king, "instead of ארצם artsam, "their land;" but it ought to be מלכיהם malcheyhem, "all the countries and their kings."