KJV:
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
NASB:
"In vain I have struck your sons; They accepted no chastening. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.
KJV:
The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
NASB:
"A lion has gone up from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations has set out; He has gone out from his place To make your land a waste. Your cities will be ruins Without inhabitant.
KJV:
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
NASB:
"Go up through her vine rows and destroy, But do not execute a complete destruction; Strip away her branches, For they are not the LORD'S.
KJV:
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
NASB:
'For wicked men are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch men.
KJV:
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
NASB:
"Arise, and let us attack by night And destroy her palaces!"
KJV:
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
NASB:
All of them are stubbornly rebellious, Going about as a talebearer. They are bronze and iron; They, all of them, are corrupt.
KJV:
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
NASB:
But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; And I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, And let us cut him off from the land of the living, That his name be remembered no more."
KJV:
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
NASB:
"Many shepherds have ruined My vineyard, They have trampled down My field; They have made My pleasant field A desolate wilderness.
KJV:
Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
NASB:
Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the waistband from the place where I had hidden it; and lo, the waistband was ruined, it was totally worthless.