So I disgraced the dignitaries of your temple; I consigned Jacob to destruction and Israel to scorn.
NIV
And so I will profane the chief ones of the sanctuary and will deliver Jacob to the curse (the ban, a solemn anathema or excommunication) and [will subject] Israel to reproaches and reviling.
AMP
Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
KJV
So will it be on the earth and among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.
NIV
For so shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking and beating of an olive tree, or as the gleaning when the vintage is done [and only a small amount of the fruit remains].
AMP
When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
KJV
Though on the day you set them out, you make them grow, and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud, yet the harvest will be as nothing in the day of disease and incurable pain.
NIV
And in the day of your planting you hedge it in, and in the morning you make your seed to blossom, yet [promising as it is] the harvest shall be a heap of ruins and flee away in the day of expected possession and of desperate sorrow and sickening, incurable pain.
AMP
In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
KJV
"For you will nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing abundance."
NIV
That you may nurse and be satisfied from her consoling breasts, that you may drink deeply and be delighted with the abundance and brightness of her glory.
AMP
That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
KJV
Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his storehouses – the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine olive oil – his entire armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.
NIV
And Hezekiah was glad and welcomed them and showed them the house of his spices and precious things--the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious ointment, all the house of his armor and his jewels, and all that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
AMP
And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
KJV
By warfare and exile you contend with her – with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.
NIV
By driving them out of Canaan, by exile, You contended with them in a measure [O Lord]--He removed them with His rough blast as in the day of the east wind.
AMP
In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
KJV
So that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.
NIV
That men may see and know and consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.
AMP
That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
KJV
You saw that the City of David had many breaches in its defenses; you stored up water in the Lower Pool.
NIV
You saw that the breaches [in the walls] of the City of David [the citadel of Zion] were many; [since the water supply was still defective] you collected [within the city's walls] the waters of the Lower Pool.
AMP
Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
KJV
