过路的人虽看为荒废之地，现今这荒废之地仍得耕种。

这荒芜的土地，曾被过路的人看为荒芜，现今却得以耕种。

这荒芜的土地，曾被过路的人看为荒芜，现今却得以耕种。

荒凉之地必有人耕种，路人再也看不见荒地。

从前所有路过的人都看为荒凉之地，现在却必再可以耕种。

過路的人雖看為荒廢之地，現今這荒廢之地仍得耕種。

這荒蕪的土地，曾被過路的人看為荒蕪，現今卻得以耕種。

這荒蕪的土地，曾被過路的人看為荒蕪，現今卻得以耕種。

荒涼之地必有人耕種，路人再也看不見荒地。

從前所有路過的人都看為荒涼之地，現在卻必再可以耕種。

在所有過路之人眼中看來、這地雖然荒涼，但這荒涼之地必仍得耕種。

荒寂之地、過者目睹、必復耕耘、

斯土荒蕪、過者所目睹、今必復耕耘、

荒蕪之地、即自昔為荒蕪、凡經過之人所目睹、今必復耕耘、

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it.

The dry and empty land will be farmed again. Everyone who passes through it will see that it is no longer empty.

And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by.

The fields that used to lie empty and desolate in plain view of everyone will again be farmed.

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

The desolated land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.

The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by.

And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

The land that was desolate will be tilled instead of being a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the desert to Diblah— wherever they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’” (niv)

I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the Lord,“ and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin.I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp.This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. (niv)

The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur— nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger.All the nations will ask:“ Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?”And the answer will be:“ It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them.Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.In furious anger and in great wrath the Lord uprooted them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.” (niv)

The land enjoyed its sabbath rests; all the time of its desolation it rested, until the seventy years were completed in fulfillment of the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah. (niv)