Isaiah 33:9

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“The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.”

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BSBPD

“The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“The land mourneth and languisheth; Lebanon is confounded and withereth away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“Mourned, languished hath the land, Confounded hath been Lebanon, Withered hath been Sharon as a wilderness, And shaking are Bashan and Carmel.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 33:9 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 3:4At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
  2. Job 15:33He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
  3. Song of Solomon 2:1I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valley.
  4. Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.
  5. Isaiah 2:13against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,
  6. Isaiah 3:26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
  7. Isaiah 14:8Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”
  8. Isaiah 24:1Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—
  9. Isaiah 24:4The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
  10. Isaiah 24:19The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.
  11. Isaiah 35:2It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
  12. Isaiah 37:24Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest heights, the densest of its forests.
  13. Isaiah 65:10Sharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, for My people who seek Me.
  14. Jeremiah 4:20Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.
  15. Jeremiah 50:19I will return Israel to his pasture, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan; his soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.
  16. Amos 1:2He said: “The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers.”
  17. Micah 7:14Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
  18. Nahum 1:4He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.
  19. Zechariah 11:1Open your doors, O Lebanon,that the fire may consume your cedars!

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