KJV:
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
NASB:
"Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, An object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.
KJV:
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
NASB:
"How Sheshak has been captured, And the praise of the whole earth been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!
KJV:
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
NASB:
"Her cities have become an object of horror, A parched land and a desert, A land in which no man lives And through which no son of man passes.
KJV:
Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
NASB:
'You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, The cup of horror and desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria.
KJV:
Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
NASB:
Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel I declare what is sure.
KJV:
He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
NASB:
It has made my vine a waste And my fig tree splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast them away; Their branches have become white.
KJV:
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
NASB:
"The statutes of Omri And all the works of the house of Ahab are observed; And in their devices you walk. Therefore I will give you up for destruction And your inhabitants for derision, And you will bear the reproach of My people."
KJV:
This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
NASB:
This is the exultant city Which dwells securely, Who says in her heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me." How she has become a desolation, A resting place for beasts! Everyone who passes by her will hiss And wave his hand in contempt.
KJV:
But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
NASB:
"but I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is desolated behind them so that no one went back and forth, for they made the pleasant land desolate."