Isaiah 22:17 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁷ Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Behold, the Lord will hurl you away violently, O you strong man; yes, He will take tight hold of you and He will surely cover you [with shame].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Behold, Jehovah, like a strong man, will hurl thee away violently; yea, he will wrap thee up closely.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ The LORD is about to hurl you down, mighty man! He is surely going to cover you with darkness;

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Behold, the Lord will cause you to be carried away, like a domesticated rooster, and he will remove you, like an outer garment.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Behold, the Lord will cause thee to be carried away, as a cock is carried away: and he will lift thee up as a garment.

Isaiah 22:17 Cross References

Esther 7:8

Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

Job 9:24

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

Isaiah 22:16

What hast thou here, and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth a habitation for himself in a rock?

Isaiah 22:18

He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.

Jeremiah 10:18

For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.

Jeremiah 14:3

And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.