2 Samuel 13:31
Modern Translations
New International Version
The king stood up, tore his clothes and lay down on the ground; and all his attendants stood by with their clothes torn.

New Living Translation
The king got up, tore his robe, and threw himself on the ground. His advisers also tore their clothes in horror and sorrow.

English Standard Version
Then the king arose and tore his garments and lay on the earth. And all his servants who were standing by tore their garments.

Berean Study Bible
Then the king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

New American Standard Bible
Then the king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay on the ground; and all his servants were standing by with clothes torn.

NASB 1995
Then the king arose, tore his clothes and lay on the ground; and all his servants were standing by with clothes torn.

NASB 1977
Then the king arose, tore his clothes and lay on the ground; and all his servants were standing by with clothes torn.

Amplified Bible
Then the king stood and tore his clothes and lay on the ground [in mourning]; and all his servants were standing by with their clothes torn.

Christian Standard Bible
In response the king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground, and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In response the king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground, and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

Contemporary English Version
David got up, and in his sorrow he tore his clothes and lay down on the ground. His servants remained standing, but they tore their clothes too.

Good News Translation
The king stood up, tore his clothes in sorrow, and threw himself to the ground. The servants who were there with him tore their clothes also.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground. All his servants were standing beside him with their clothes torn [to show their grief].

International Standard Version
David arose, ripped his clothes in anguish, and collapsed to the ground while all of his staff stood by with their own clothes torn.

NET Bible
Then the king stood up and tore his garments and lay down on the ground. All his servants were standing there with torn garments as well.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.

New King James Version
So the king arose and tore his garments and lay on the ground, and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

King James 2000 Bible
Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

New Heart English Bible
Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the ground; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

World English Bible
Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

American King James Version
Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.

American Standard Version
Then the king arose, and rent his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.

A Faithful Version
And the king arose and tore his garments, and lay on the earth. And all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

Darby Bible Translation
Then the king arose, and rent his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their garments rent.

English Revised Version
Then the king arose, and rent his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Then the King arose, & tare his garments, and lay on the ground, & all his seruants stoode by with their clothes rent.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Then the king arose, & tare his garmentes, and lay along on the earth: and all his seruauntes stoode by with their clothes rent.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Then stode the kynge vp, and rente his clothes, & layed him downe vpon the earth, and all his seruautes that stode aboute him, rente their clothes.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and the king rises, and tears his garments, and lies on the earth, and all his servants are standing by [with] torn garments.

Young's Literal Translation
and the king riseth, and rendeth his garments, and lieth on the earth, and all his servants are standing by with rent garments.

Smith's Literal Translation
And the king will rise and rend his garments, and will lie down upon the earth; and all his servants standing by with their garments rent.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the king rose up, and rent his garments: and fell upon the ground, and all his servants, that stood about him, rent their garments.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And so the king rose up, and he tore his garments, and he fell upon the ground. And all his servants, who were standing near him, tore their garments.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And the King arose and he ripped his clothes and he sat on the ground, and all his Servants arose when they ripped their clothes

Lamsa Bible
Then the king arose and tore his garments and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Then the king arose, and rent his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Then the king arose, and rent his garments, and lay upon the ground: and all his servants that were standing round him rent their garments.
















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