Isaiah 16:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vines of Sibmah, whose clusters once made drunk the lords of the nations, reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; their shoots once spread abroad and crossed over the sea.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ For the fields of Heshbon languish and wither, and the vines of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down [Moab's] choice vine branches, which reached even to Jazer, wandering into the wilderness; its shoots stretched out abroad, they passed over [the shores of] the [Dead] Sea.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.

Common English Bible

⁸ The fields of Heshbon languish. The vines of Sibmah, whose honored grapes overpowered masters of nations, had reached as far as Jazer and strayed to the desert. Their tendrils spread out and crossed the sea.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For the suburbs of Heshbon are deserted, and the lords of the Gentiles have cut down the vineyard of Sibmah. Its vines have arrived even at Jazer. They have wandered in the desert. Its seedlings have been abandoned. They have crossed over the sea.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ For the suburbs of Hesebon are desolate, and the lords of the nations have destroyed the vineyard of Sabama: the branches thereof have reached even to Jazer: they have wandered in the wilderness; the branches thereof are left; they are gone over the sea.

Isaiah 16:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:21

You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you nor bounteous fields! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, anointed with oil no more.

Isaiah 10:7

But this is not what he intends, nor does he have this in mind, but it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off nations not a few.

Isaiah 15:4

Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the loins of Moab quiver; his soul trembles.

Isaiah 16:9

Therefore I weep as Jazer weeps for the vines of Sibmah; I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh, for the shout over your fruit harvest and your grain harvest has ceased.

Isaiah 24:7

The wine dries up; the vine languishes; all the merry-hearted sigh.

Jeremiah 48:32

More than for Jazer I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! Your branches crossed over the sea, reached as far as Jazer; upon your summer fruits and your vintage the destroyer has fallen.

Numbers 21:32

Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

Numbers 32:3

“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon—

Numbers 32:35

Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

Numbers 32:38

Nebo, and Baal-meon (some names being changed), and Sibmah, and they gave names to the towns that they rebuilt.

Joshua 13:19

and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,

Joshua 13:25

Their territory was Jazer, and all the towns of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is near Rabbah,