Isaiah 7:16 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
For before the child know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good, the land which thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of the face of her two kings.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
But even before the boy knows to refuse evil and to choose good, the land that you detest will be abandoned by the face of her two kings.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken.
LSV Literal Standard Version
For before the youth knows || To refuse evil, and to fix on good, || The land you are distressed with is forsaken, because of her two kings.
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
For before the child knoweth to refuse the evil and to choose the good, the land whose two kings thou fearest shall be forsaken.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken by both her kings.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
For afore the childe shall haue knowledge to eschew the euill, and to chuse the good, the land, that thou abhorrest, shalbe forsaken of both her Kings.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be desolate.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jewish
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
Yea, before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou hast a horror of shall be forsaken.
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
For before the child shall know good or evil, he refuses evil, to choose the good; and the land shall be forsaken which thou art afraid of because of the two kings.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
For before the child shall know good or evil, he refuses evil, to choose the good; and the land shall be forsaken which thou art afraid of because of the two kings.
YLT Young's Literal Translation
For before the youth doth know To refuse evil, and to fix on good, Forsaken is the land thou art vexed with, because of her two kings.
FBV Free Bible Version
For before the boy knows to refuse evil and choose the good, the land of the two kings you're afraid of will be deserted.
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now fearing will have become waste.
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Porque antes que el niño sepa desechar lo malo y escoger lo bueno, la tierra que tú aborreces será dejada de sus dos reyes.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
(this translation has no verse with this number)
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Porque antes que el niño sepa rechazar lo malo y escoger lo bueno, la tierra será abandonada por los dos reyes a quienes tú temes.
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Porque antes de que el niño sepa rechazar el mal y elegir el bien, la tierra de los dos reyes que temes será abandonada.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Antes de que el niño tenga edad para distinguir entre el mal y el bien, quedará desolada la tierra de los dos reyes a quienes ahora temes.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
Διότι πρινὴ γνῶναι τὸ παιδίον ἀγαθὸν ἢ κακὸν, ἀπειθεῖ πονηρίᾳ, ἐκλέξασθαι τὸ ἀγαθόν· καὶ καταλειφθήσεται ἡ γῆ ἣν σὺ φοβῇ, ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν δύο βασιλέων.
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex
כִּ֠י בְּטֶ֨רֶם יֵדַ֥ע הַנַּ֛עַר מָאֹ֥ס בָּרָ֖ע וּבָחֹ֣ר בַּטּ֑וֹב תֵּעָזֵ֤ב הָאֲדָמָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אַתָּ֣ה קָ֔ץ מִפְּנֵ֖י שְׁנֵ֥י מְלָכֶֽיהָ׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Quia antequam sciat puer reprobare malum et eligere bonum, derelinquetur terra quam tu detestaris a facie duorum regum suorum.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
занѐ пре́жде не́же разꙋмѣ́ти ѻ҆троча́ти благо́е и҆лѝ ѕло́е, ѿри́нетъ лꙋка́вое, є҆́же и҆збра́ти благо́е, и҆ ѡ҆ста́витсѧ землѧ̀, є҆ѧ́же ты̀ бои́шисѧ, ѿ лица̀ двꙋ́хъ царе́й.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
ибо прежде нежели этот младенец будет разуметь отвергать худое и избирать доброе, земля та, которой ты страшишься, будет оставлена обоими царями ее.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Διότι πριν μάθη το παιδίον να απορρίπτη το κακόν και να εκλέγη το αγαθόν, η γη, την οποίαν αποστρέφεσαι, θέλει εγκαταλειφθή υπό των δύο βασιλέων αυτής.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Јер пре него научи дете одбацити зло а изабрати добро, оставиће земљу, на коју се гадиш, два цара њена.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Jer pre nego nauči dete odbaciti zlo a izabrati dobro, ostaviće zemlju, na koju se gadiš, dva cara njena.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
لِأَنَّهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَعْرِفَ ٱلصَّبِيُّ أَنْ يَرْفُضَ ٱلشَّرَّ وَيَخْتَارَ ٱلْخَيْرَ، تُخْلَى ٱلْأَرْضُ ٱلَّتِي أَنْتَ خَاشٍ مِنْ مَلِكَيْهَا».
Not in these translations (8)
Tyndale, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT