Isaiah 3:26 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath been emptied, on the earth she sitteth!

English ASV

And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.

English Amplified

And [Jerusalem's] gates shall lament and mourn [as those who wail for the dead]; and she, being ruined and desolate, shall sit upon the ground.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

And [Jerusalem's] gates shall lament and mourn [as those who wail for the dead]; and she, being ruined and desolate, shall sit upon the ground.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Then her gates will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground.

English EASY 2024

The city's gates will see all this and they will weep! The city will be empty. Zion will be like a poor woman who sits on the ground, completely alone.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

There will be crying and sadness in the meeting places by the city gates. Jerusalem will sit there empty, like a woman who has lost everything to thieves and robbers and now just sits on the ground and cries.

And her gates shall lament and mourn; empty, she shall sit on the ground.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

The city gates will mourn and cry, and the city itself will be like a woman sitting on the ground, stripped naked.

English God's Word - GW 1995

The gates of Zion will cry and grieve, and Zion will sit on the ground, exhausted.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Then her gates will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.

English KJV 1611

And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

English LSB

And her gates will lament and mourn, And deserted she will sit on the ground.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Her gates shall lament and mourn, and she, being desolate, shall sit on the ground.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

And her gates will lament and mourn, And deserted she will sit on the ground.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Her gates will lament and mourn, as the city sits desolate on the ground.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

The city of Zion will be very sad. Like a widow, she will lose everything. She will sit on the ground and sob.

English NIV

The gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

English NKJ 1982

Her gates shall lament and mourn, And she being desolate shall sit on the ground.

English NLT

The gates of Jerusalem will weep and mourn. The city will be like a ravaged woman, huddled on the ground.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

And her gates shall lament and mourn; ravaged, she shall sit upon the ground.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

Cries of mourning will be heard at the city gates; with the anguish of such great loss, she will sit down and grieve in the dirt.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

And her gates shall lament and mourn; ravaged, she shall sit upon the ground.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

women, ravaged, shall sit crying on the ground.

English Tyndale 1537

At that time shall their gates mourn and complain, and they shall sit as desolate folk upon the earth.

Isaiah 3:26 — Compare Translations