ZEC 2:4 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) and told him, “Run and speak to that young man, saying: Yerushalem won’t need city walls because there’ll be so many people and animals within it.

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Καὶ εἶπα, τί οὗτοι ἔρχονται ποιῆσαι; καὶ εἶπε ταῦτα τὰ κέρατα τὰ διασκορπίσαντα τὸν Ἰούδα καὶ τὸν Ἰσραὴλ κατέαξαν, καὶ οὐδεὶς αὐτῶν ᾖρε κεφαλήν· καὶ ἐξήλθοσαν οὗτοι τοῦ ὀξῦναι αὐτὰ εἰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν, τὰ τέσσαρα κέρατα, τὰ ἔθνη τὰ ἐπαιρόμενα κέρας ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν Κυρίου, τοῦ διασκορπίσαι αὐτήν.
(Kai eipa, ti houtoi erⱪontai poiaʸsai; kai eipe tauta ta kerata ta diaskorpisanta ton Youda kai ton Israaʸl kateaxan, kai oudeis autōn aʸre kefalaʸn; kai exaʸlthosan houtoi tou oxunai auta eis ⱪeiras autōn, ta tessara kerata, ta ethnaʸ ta epairomena keras epi taʸn gaʸn Kuriou, tou diaskorpisai autaʸn. )

BrTr And I said, What are these coming to do? And he said, These are the horns that scattered Juda, and they broke Israel in pieces, and none of them lifted up his head: and these are come forth to sharpen them for their hands, even the four horns, the nations that lifted up the horn against the land of the Lord to scatter it.

ULT And he said to him, “Run and speak to that young man; saying,
⇔ ‘Jerusalem will sit in the open country
⇔ because of the multitudes of men and beasts within her.

UST The second angel said to him, “Run and tell that young man with the surveyor’s line: Some day there will be very many people and livestock in Jerusalem, so they will not all be able to live inside the city walls; many will live outside the walls in the open country.

BSB and said to him, “Run and tell that young man: ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the multitude of men and livestock within it.

OEB and said to him, ‘Run and tell to that young man that Jerusalem will be inhabited like a village without walls, because so many people and cattle will live there.

WEBBE and said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET and said to him, “Hurry, speak to this young man as follows: ‘Jerusalem will no longer be enclosed by walls because of the multitude of people and animals there.

LSV and he says to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying,
Jerusalem is inhabited [as] open places,
From the abundance of man and beast in her midst.

FBV and told him, “Run, and tell the young man[fn] that Jerusalem will have so many people and farm animals that it will be too big to have walls.”

2:4 Referring to the man with the measuring line mentioned in 2:1.

T4T That other angel said to him, “Run and tell that young man that some day there will be very many people and livestock in Jerusalem, with the result that there will be too many to live inside the city walls; many will live outside the walls.

LEB No LEB ZEC book available

BBE Said to him, Go quickly and say to this young man, Jerusalem will be an unwalled town, because of the great number of men and cattle in her.

Moff No Moff ZEC book available

JPS (2-8) and said unto him: 'Run, speak to this young man, saying: 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein.

ASV and said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, by reason of the multitude of men and cattle therein.

DRA And he said to him: Run, speak to this young man, saying: Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls, by reason of the multitude of men, and of the beasts in the midst thereof.

YLT and he saith unto him, 'Run, speak unto this young man, saying: Unwalled villages inhabit doth Jerusalem, From the abundance of man and beast in her midst.

Drby and said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein;

RV and said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, by reason of the multitude of men and cattle therein.
(and said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Yerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, by reason of the multitude of men and cattle therein. )

SLT And he will say to him, Run, speak to this youth, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited an open country from the multitude of men and cattle in the midst of her.

Wbstr And said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle in it.

KJB-1769 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:
(And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Yerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein: )

KJB-1611 And said vnto him, Run, speake to this young man, saying; Ierusalem shall be inhabited as townes without walles, for the multitude of men and cattell therein.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps No Bshps ZEC book available

Gnva And saide vnto him, Runne, speake to this yong man, and say, Ierusalem shalbe inhabited without walles, for the multitude of men and cattell therein.
(And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, and say, Yerusalem shall be inhabited without walls, for the multitude of men and cattle therein. )

Cvdl No Cvdl ZEC book available

Wycl No Wycl ZEC book available

Luth No Luth ZEC book available

ClVg et dixit ad eum: Curre, loquere ad puerum istum, dicens: Absque muro habitabitur Jerusalem, præ multitudine hominum et jumentorum in medio ejus.
(and he_said to him: Curre, speak to childum that, saying: Without muro will_be_inhabited Yerusalem, before multitude of_men and of_cattle in/into/on in_the_middle his. )

RP-GNT No RP-GNT ZEC book available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

(Occurrence 0) The second angel said to him

(Some words not found in UHB: and,asked what these coming to,do and=he/it_said to=say these the,horns which/who scattered DOM Yehuda as,mouth_of (a)_man not raise his/its=head and=they_came these to,terrify DOM=them to,strike_down DOM horns_of the=nations the,lifted_up horns to/towards earth/land Yehuda to,scatter,it )

Alternate translation: “The second angel said to the angel who had talked with me”

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

(Occurrence 0) Jerusalem will sit in the open country … beasts within her

The phrase “will sit in the open country” translates a word that refers to a city that has no walls. There will be so many inhabitants in the city that it will be too large to have walls around it. Alternate translation: “Jerusalem will not have walls around it … beasts within the city”

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