Isaiah 5:13
Isaiah chapter 5 · verse 13 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.
Context
v.12And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
v.13This passage
v.14Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend into it.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- John 3:19
And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
- Amos 8:13
In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.
- Isaiah 1:3
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
- Isaiah 42:22
But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
- Isaiah 27:11
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
- Lamentations 4:9
They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.