American Standard Version (ASV):
Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ask ye now among the nations, who hath heard such things; the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
King James Version (KJV):
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?
King James Version (KJV):
Will [a man] leave the snow of Lebanon [which cometh] from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
American Standard Version (ASV):
For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods] ; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;
King James Version (KJV):
Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;
American Standard Version (ASV):
to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
King James Version (KJV):
To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.
King James Version (KJV):
Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
American Standard Version (ASV):
But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart.
King James Version (KJV):
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
American Standard Version (ASV):
And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
King James Version (KJV):
And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant [it];
American Standard Version (ASV):
if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
King James Version (KJV):
If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
American Standard Version (ASV):
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
King James Version (KJV):
[At what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy [it];
American Standard Version (ASV):
if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
King James Version (KJV):
If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.