For our being is bowed down to the dust; Our body cleaves to the earth.
Isaiah 29:4 - The Scriptures 2009 “And you shall be brought low and speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low, out of the dust. And your voice shall be like a medium’s, out of the ground, and your speech whisper out of the dust. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And you shall be laid low [Jerusalem], speaking from beneath the ground, and your speech shall come humbly from the dust. And your voice shall be like that of a ghost [produced by a medium] coming from the earth, and your speech shall whisper and squeak as it chatters from the dust. American Standard Version (1901) And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust; and thy voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. Common English Bible You will be brought down; from the ground you will speak; from low in the dust your speech will come. Your voice will be like a ghost’s from the earth; from the dust your words will whisper. Catholic Public Domain Version You will be brought low. You will speak from the ground, and your eloquence will be heard from the dirt. And, from the ground, your voice will be like that of the python, and your eloquence will mumble from the dirt. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou shalt be brought down: thou shalt speak out of the earth. And thy speech shall be heard out of the ground: and thy voice shall be from the earth like that of the python: and out of the ground thy speech shall mutter. |
For our being is bowed down to the dust; Our body cleaves to the earth.
For Yerushalayim has stumbled, and Yehuḏah has fallen, because their tongue and their doings are against יהוה, to provoke the eyes of His esteem.
even when hail shall fall, felling the forest, and the city be brought low in humiliation.
“And I shall put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your being, ‘Bow down, and we pass over you.’ And you made your back like the ground, and as the street, to walk over.”
Shake yourself from the dust, arise, and sit down, O Yerushalayim. Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Tsiyon!
And when they say to you, “Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek their Elohim? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?
Her uncleanness is in her skirts. She did not keep in mind her latter end, And has gone down appallingly, There was no one to comfort her. “See, O יהוה, my affliction, For the enemy has made himself great!”