Isaiah 37:18

Young's Literal Translation

`Truly, O Jehovah, kings of Asshur have laid waste all the lands and their land,

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

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,

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

Contextual Overview

⁸ And Rabshakeh turneth back and findeth the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he hath heard that he hath journeyed from Lachish. ⁹ And he heareth concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying, `He hath come out to fight with thee;' and he heareth, and sendeth messengers unto Hezekiah, saying, <sup>10</sup> `Thus do ye speak unto Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God lift thee up in whom thou art trusting, saying, Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur. ¹¹ Lo, thou hast heard that which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands -- to devote them -- and thou art delivered! ¹² Did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed -- Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who [are] in Telassar? ¹³ Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?' ¹⁴ And Hezekiah taketh the letters out of the hand of the messengers, and readeth them, and Hezekiah goeth up to the house of Jehovah, and Hezekiah spreadeth it before Jehovah. ¹⁵ And Hezekiah prayeth unto Jehovah, saying, ¹⁶ `Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, inhabiting the cherubs, Thou [art] God Himself -- Thyself alone -- to all kingdoms of the earth, Thou hast made the heavens and the earth. ¹⁷ Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, Thine eyes and see; and hear Thou all the words of Sennacherib that he hath sent to reproach 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
and he saith to him, `Go, I pray thee, see the peace of thy brethren, and the peace of the flock, and bring me back word;' and he sendeth him from the valley of Hebron, and he cometh to Shechem.

Genesis 37:15
And a man findeth him, and lo, he is wandering in the field, and the man asketh him, saying, `What seekest thou?'

1 Samuel 19:1
And Saul speaketh unto Jonathan his son, and unto all his servants, to put David to death,

Psalms 31:13
For I have heard an evil account of many, Fear [is] round about. In their being united against me, To take my life they have devised,

Psalms 37:12
The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

Psalms 37:32
The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.

Psalms 94:21
They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.

Psalms 105:25
He turned their heart to hate His people, To conspire against His servants.

Psalms 109:4
For my love they oppose me, and I -- prayer!

Matthew 21:38
and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;

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."