Isaiah 51:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, “Bow down, that we may walk on you,” and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to walk on.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

but I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And I will put it into the hands of your tormentors and oppressors, those who said to you, Bow down, that we may ride or tread over you; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over.

American Standard Version (1901)

and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, that have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over.

Common English Bible

I will put it in the hand of your tormentors, who said to you, “Lie down so that we can walk on you. Make your back like the ground, like a street for those walking on it.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And I will set it in the hand of those who have humiliated you, and who have said to your soul: "Bow down, so that we pass over." And you placed your body on the ground, as a path for them to pass over.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And I will put it in the hand of them that have oppressed thee and have said to thy soul: Bow down, that we may go over. And thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as a way to them that went over.

Isaiah 51:23 Cross References

Psalm 129:3

The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long.

Psalm 66:12

you let people ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a spacious place.

Proverbs 11:8

The righteous are delivered from trouble, and the wicked come into it instead.

Proverbs 21:18

The wicked is a ransom for the righteous and the faithless for the upright.

Obadiah 1:16

For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and gulp down and shall be as though they had never been.

Micah 7:10

Then my enemies will see, and shame will cover those who said to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will see their downfall; now they will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

Zechariah 12:2

See, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of reeling for all the surrounding peoples; it will be against Judah also in the siege against Jerusalem.

Joshua 10:24

When they brought the kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the Israelites and said to the chiefs of the warriors who had gone with him, “Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings.” Then they came near and put their feet on their necks.

Revelation 11:2

but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.

Revelation 17:18

The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”