American Standard Version (ASV):
When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.
King James Version (KJV):
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
American Standard Version (ASV):
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
King James Version (KJV):
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
American Standard Version (ASV):
The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
King James Version (KJV):
The violence done to me and to my flesh [be] upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
King James Version (KJV):
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
American Standard Version (ASV):
For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
King James Version (KJV):
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshingfloor, [it is] time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed [ me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.
King James Version (KJV):
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
American Standard Version (ASV):
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:
King James Version (KJV):
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at [one] end,
American Standard Version (ASV):
and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
King James Version (KJV):
And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
American Standard Version (ASV):
And the land trembleth and is in pain; for the purposes of Jehovah against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
King James Version (KJV):
And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
American Standard Version (ASV):
The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might hath failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken.
King James Version (KJV):
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in [their] holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.