Isaiah 49:17
Modern Translations
New International Version
Your children hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you.

New Living Translation
Soon your descendants will come back, and all who are trying to destroy you will go away.

English Standard Version
Your builders make haste; your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.

Berean Study Bible
Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.

New American Standard Bible
“Your builders hurry; Your destroyers and devastators Will leave you.

NASB 1995
"Your builders hurry; Your destroyers and devastators Will depart from you.

NASB 1977
“Your builders hurry; Your destroyers and devastators Will depart from you.

Amplified Bible
“Your builders hurry; Your destroyers and devastators Will go away from you.

Christian Standard Bible
Your builders hurry; those who destroy and devastate you will leave you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your builders hurry; those who destroy and devastate you will leave you.

Contemporary English Version
"Your city will be built faster than it was destroyed--those who attacked it will retreat and leave.

Good News Translation
"Those who will rebuild you are coming soon, and those who destroyed you will leave.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Your children will hurry back. Those who destroyed you and laid waste to you will leave you.

International Standard Version
Your builders are working faster than your destroyers, and those who devastated you go away from you.

NET Bible
Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

New King James Version
Your sons shall make haste; Your destroyers and those who laid you waste Shall go away from you.

King James 2000 Bible
Your children shall make haste; your destroyers and they that made you waste shall go forth from you.

New Heart English Bible
Your builders hurry; your destroyers and those who devastated you shall depart from you.

World English Bible
Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you.

American King James Version
Your children shall make haste; your destroyers and they that made you waste shall go forth of you.

American Standard Version
Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.

A Faithful Version
Your children shall make haste; those destroying you and ruining you shall go out from you.

Darby Bible Translation
Thy sons shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that laid thee waste shall go forth from thee.

English Revised Version
Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste, shall go forth from thee.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Thy builders make haste: thy destroiers and they that made thee waste, are departed from thee.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
They make haste who buildeth thee vp againe: as for those that ouerthrowe thee and make thee waste, they shall depart from thee.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
They that haue broken the downe, shal make haist to buylde the vp agayne: and they that made the waist, shal dwell in the.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Those building you have hurried, "" Those destroying you, and laying you waste, go out from you.

Young's Literal Translation
Hastened have those building thee, Those destroying thee, and laying thee waste, go out from thee.

Smith's Literal Translation
Thy sons hastened; they destroying thee and laying thee waste shall come forth from thee.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make thee waste shall go out of thee.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Your builders have arrived. Those who would tear you down and destroy you, they will depart from you.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Your children, your destroyers and your plunderers shall go out from you quickly

Lamsa Bible
Your sons who caused your destruction and those who laid you waste shall make haste to go forth from you.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Thy children make haste; Thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou shalt soon be built by those by whom thou were destroyed, and they that made thee desolate shall go forth of thee.
















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