Isaiah 30:6
This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- burden
- Isaiah 46:1, 2; Isaiah 57:9; Hosea 8:9, 10; Hosea 12:1
- beasts
- 1 Kings 10:2; Matthew 12:42
- into the land
- Or, as Bp. Lowth renders, "through a land of distress and difficulty:" the same deserts are here spoken of which the Israelites passed through.
- Isaiah 19:4; Exodus 1:14; Exodus 5:10–21; Deuteronomy 4:20; Deuteronomy 8:15; Deuteronomy 17:16; Jeremiah 11:4
- the viper
- Numbers 21:6, 7; Deuteronomy 8:15; Jeremiah 2:6
- riches
- 2 Chronicles 9:1; 2 Chronicles 16:2; 2 Chronicles 28:20–23