Ecclesiastes 9:14

American Standard Version (1901) ☆

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

ASV Byzantine Text ☆

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

English Berean Standard Bible ☆

There was a small city with few men. A mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege ramps against it.

Bible in Basic English ☆

There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.

Brenton English Septuagint ☆

suppose there were a little city, and few men in it; and there should come against it a great king, and surround it, and build great mounds against it;

Darby Translation ☆

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and encompassed it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Douay-Rheims 1899 ☆

A little city, and few men in it: there came against it a great king, and invested it, and built bulwarks round about it, and the siege was perfect.

Geneva Bible 1599 ☆

A litle citie and fewe men in it, and a great King came against it, and compassed it about, and builded fortes against it.

Noyes Bible ☆

There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

Leeser Tanakh ☆

There was a little city, and the men therein were few; and there came against it a great king, who enclosed it, and built around it great works of siege;

JPS TaNaKH 1917 ☆

there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it;

King James Version ☆

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

King James Version + Apocrypha ☆

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

KJV Cambridge Paragraph ☆

there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

LXX2012 U. S. English ☆

suppose there were a little city, and few men in it; and there should come against it a great king, and surround it, and build great mounds against it;

British English Septuagint 2012 ☆

suppose there were a little city, and few men in it; and there should come against it a great king, and surround it, and build great mounds against it;

Majority Standard BIble ☆

There was a small city with few men. A mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege ramps against it.

Webster Bible ☆

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Revised Version ☆

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Updated Brenton English Septuagint ☆

Suppose there were a little city, and few men in it; And there should come against it a great king, and surround it, And build great mounds against it;

World English Bible ☆

There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

World English Bible (Catholic) ☆

There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

World English Bible British Edition ☆

There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

World English Bible British Edition with Deuterocanon ☆

There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

World English Bible Classic ☆

There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

World English Bible Updated ☆

There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

World Messianic Bible ☆

There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

World Messianic Bible British Edition ☆

There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

Young's Literal Translation ☆

A little city, and few men in it, and a great king hath come unto it, and hath surrounded it, and hath built against it great bulwarks;

The Orthodox Jewish Bible - Tanakh and Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha - The Holy Bible ☆

There was an ir ketanah (little city), and few men within it; and there came a melech gadol against it, and besieged it, and built metzorim gedolim (huge siegeworks) against it.

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Arabic Van Dyck Bible ☆

مَدِينَةٌ صَغِيرَةٌ فِيهَا أُنَاسٌ قَلِيلُونَ، فَجَاءَ عَلَيْهَا مَلِكٌ عَظِيمٌ وَحَاصَرَهَا وَبَنَى عَلَيْهَا أَبْرَاجًا عَظِيمَةً.

Burmese Common Language Bible ☆

မြို့သားနည်းသောမြို့ငယ်တမြို့ရှိ၏။ ကြီးသော ရှင်ဘုရင်တပါးသည်လာ၍၊ ထိုမြို့ပြင်မှာ ကြီးစွာသော တပ်တို့ကို တည်၍ဝိုင်းထား၏။

Judson Burmese Bible ☆

မြို့သား နည်း သောမြို့ ငယ် တမြို့ရှိ၏။ ကြီး သော ရှင် ဘုရင်တပါးသည်လာ ၍ ၊ ထိုမြို့ ပြင် မှာ ကြီးစွာ သော တပ် တို့ကို တည် ၍ ဝိုင်း ထား၏။

Asang Khongca Bible ☆

Avang tetta maeto oh moe, to avang thungah kami zetta oh o; thacak siangpahrang loe angzoh moe, to vangpui to takui khoep, anih mah kalen parai misa abuephaih long to takaeh.

Matupi Chin Standard Bible 2019 ☆

Khopuei he yit tih a khuikah hlang te a yol vaengah tah manghai puei a paan tih a vael phoeiah tluum len a sak thil.

Matupi Chin Standard Bible w/ Strongs ☆

Khopuei he yit tih a khuikah hlang te a yol vaengah tah manghai puei a paan tih a vael phoeiah tluum len a sak thil.

Chinese Union Version (simplified) ☆

就是有一小城，其中的人数稀少，有大君王来攻击，修筑营垒，将城围困。

Chinese Union Version (traditional) ☆

就是有一小城，其中的人數稀少，有大君王來攻擊，修築營壘，將城圍困。

World Chinese Bible ☆

有一座小城，城里的人很少；有一位大王来攻击它，围困它，又筑起高大的攻城工事来攻击它。

Croatian Bible ☆

Bi jedan malen grad i u njem malo ljudi, a na nj udari velik kralj, opkoli ga i podiže oko njega velike opsadne tornjeve.

Czech Kralická Bible 1613 ☆

Bylo město malé, a v něm lidí málo, k němuž přitáhl král mocný, a obehnav je, zdělal proti němu náspy veliké.

Danish Bible 1931 ☆

Der var en lille By med få Indbyggere, og mod den kom en stor Konge; han omringede den og byggede høje Volde imod den;

Dutch Bible 1917 ☆

Er was een kleine stad, en weinig lieden waren daarin; en een groot koning kwam tegen haar, en hij omsingelde ze, en hij bouwde grote vastigheden tegen haar.

Dutch Bible, Petrus Canisius ☆

Er was eens een kleine stad met slechts weinig mannen; Een machtig koning rukte tegen haar op, Sloot ze in, en richtte grote verschansingen op.

Esperanto Bible ☆

estis urbo malgranda, kaj malmulte da homoj ĝi havis; venis al ĝi granda reĝo, kaj sieĝis ĝin, kaj konstruis ĉirkaŭ ĝi grandajn sieĝajn fortikaĵojn;

French: Bible J.N. Darby ☆

il y avait une petite ville, et peu d’hommes dedans ; et un grand roi vint contre elle, et l’investit, et bâtit contre elle de grandes terrasses ;

French Ostervald Bible ☆

Il y avait une petite ville, avec peu d'hommes dedans; contre elle vint un grand roi; et il l'investit, et il bâtit contre elle de grands forts.

French Louis Segond 1910 Bible ☆

Il y avait une petite ville, avec peu d’hommes dans son sein; un roi puissant marcha sur elle, l’investit, et éleva contre elle de grands forts.

French Free Holy Bible for the World ☆

Il y avait une petite ville, avec peu d'habitants ; un grand roi marcha contre elle, l'assiégea et construisit contre elle de puissants retranchements.

German Unrevised Elberfelder Bible ☆

Es war eine kleine Stadt, und wenig Männer waren darin; und wider sie kam ein großer König, und er umzingelte sie und baute große Belagerungswerke wider sie.

German Luther Bible 1912 ☆

daß eine kleine Stadt war und wenig Leute darin, und kam ein großer König und belagerte sie und baute große Bollwerke darum,

German Textbibel ☆

da war eine kleine Stadt und wenig Männer darin, und es kam wider sie ein großer König und umzingelte sie und baute wider sie große Bollwerke.

German Schlachter Bible 1951 ☆

Gegen eine kleine Stadt, in welcher wenig Männer waren, kam ein großer König und belagerte sie und baute große Belagerungstürme wider sie.

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SEPTUAGINTA ☆

πόλις μικρὰ καὶ ἄνδρες ἐν αὐτῇ ὀλίγοι, καὶ ἔλθῃ ἐπ᾿ αὐτὴν βασιλεὺς μέγας καὶ κυκλώσῃ αὐτὴν καὶ οἰκοδομήσῃ ἐπ᾿ αὐτὴν χάρακας μεγάλους·

Brenton Septuagint ☆

Πόλις μικρὰ καὶ ἄνδρες ἐν αὐτῇ ὀλίγοι, καὶ ἔλθῃ ἐπʼ αὐτὴν βασιλεὺς μέγας καὶ κυκλώσῃ αὐτὴν, καὶ οἰκοδομήσῃ ἐπʼ αὐτὴν χάρακας μεγάλους·

Haitian Creole Bible 1985 ☆

Vwala se te yon ti bouk tou piti ki pa t' gen anpil moun ladan l'. Yon gran wa vin atake l' ak yon gwo lame. Li sènen bouk la toupatou, li fè pare yon bann bagay pou kraze miray ranpa bouk la.

Hawaiian Bible 1868 ☆

Aia ke kulanakauhale uuku, aole nui na kanaka maloko; a hiki mai kekahi alii nui, a hoopopilikia ia wahi, a kukulu iho i pa kaua nui e ku e aku i ua kulanakauhale la.

Hebrew Masoretic OT ☆

עִ֣יר קְטַנָּ֔ה וַאֲנָשִׁ֥ים בָּ֖הּ מְעָ֑ט וּבָֽא־אֵלֶ֜יהָ מֶ֤לֶךְ גָּדֹול֙ וְסָבַ֣ב אֹתָ֔הּ וּבָנָ֥ה עָלֶ֖יהָ מְצֹודִ֥ים גְּדֹלִֽים׃

Modern Hebrew Bible ☆

עיר קטנה ואנשים בה מעט ובא אליה מלך גדול וסבב אתה ובנה עליה מצודים גדלים׃

Italian Diodati Bible ☆

vi era una piccola città con pochi uomini dentro ; ed un gran re venne contro ad essa, e l'intorniò, e fece di gran bastie contro ad essa;

Italian Riveduta Bible ☆

C’era una piccola città, con entro pochi uomini; un gran re le marciò contro, la cinse d’assedio, e le costruì contro de’ grandi bastioni.

Japanese Freedom Bible ☆

小さな町があり、その中にはわずかな人しかいなかった。そこへ大王が攻めて来て、町を包囲し、それに対して大きな攻城塁を築いた。

Korean Bible 1910 ☆

곧 어떤 작고 인구가 많지 않은 성읍에 큰 임금이 와서 에워싸고 큰 흉벽을 쌓고 치고자 할 때에

Kosraean Bible ☆

Oasr sie siti srisrik ma mwet na pu muta we. Na sie tokosra na ku tuku mweuni acn sac. El kuhlusya ac akoo in fokolak pot uh ac utyak.

Clementine Vulgate 1598 ☆

civitas parva, et pauci in ea viri; venit contra eam rex magnus, et vallavit eam, exstruxitque munitiones per gyrum, et perfecta est obsidio.

Old Persion Version Bible ☆

شهری کوچک بود که مردان در آن قلیل العدد بودند و پادشاهی بزرگ بر آن آمده، آن را محاصره نمود و سنگرهای عظیم برپاکرد.

World Portuguese Bible ☆

Havia uma pequena cidade, com poucos homens dentro dela; e um grande rei veio contra ela, a cercou e construiu grandes baluartes contra ela.

Portuguese Bíblia Livre ☆

Havia uma pequena cidade, em que havia poucas pessoas; e veio contra ela um grande rei, e a cercou, e levantou contra ela grandes barreiras.

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Romanian BTF Bible ☆

Era o mică cetate și puțini oameni în ea; și a venit un împărat mare împotriva ei și a asediat-o și a zidit fortificații mari împotriva ei;

Romanian Bible (Cyrillic) ☆

Ера о микэ четате, ку пуцинь оамень ын еа ши а венит асупра ей ун ымпэрат путерник, а ымпресурат-о ши а ридикат марь ынтэритурь ымпотрива ей.

Russian Synodal Bible ☆

город небольшой, и людей в нем немного; к нему подступил великий царь и обложил его и произвел против него большие осадные работы;

Serbian DK Bible (Latin) ☆

Beše malen grad i u njemu malo ljudi; i dođe na nj velik car, i opkoli ga i načini oko njega velike opkope.

Serbian DK Bible (Cyrillic) ☆

Беше мален град и у њему мало људи; и дође на њ велик цар, и опколи га и начини око њега велике опкопе.

Mashi Bible ☆

Hali lugo luguma lusungunu, lurhalimwo bantu banji, Mwâmi muguma muzibu ayisha alurhêra, alugorha analuyûbakira ebinene n’ebinja.

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Reina Valera 1909 ☆

Una pequeña ciudad, y pocos hombres en ella; y viene contra ella un gran rey, y cércala, y edifica contra ella grandes baluartes:

Spanish BLL ☆

Había una ciudad pequeña, con pocos habitantes. Un rey muy poderoso marchó contra ella, la sitió y construyó grandes obras de asedio a su alrededor.

Spanish Free Bible for the World ☆

había una pequeña ciudad, y pocos hombres en ella; y vino contra ella un gran rey, y la asedió y levantó contra ella grandes baluartes.

La Biblia en Español Sencillo ☆

Había un pequeño pueblo y el número de sus hombres era pequeño, y hubo un gran rey en su contra que atacó, construyendo obras de guerra alrededor de él.

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Spanish Bible (God's Word for You) ☆

Una pequeña ciudad con pocos hombres en ella, y llega contra ella un gran rey, y construye contra ella grandes torres de asedio.

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Revised West Version ☆

Naʻe ai ʻae kihiʻi kolo, pea tokosiʻi ʻae kau tangata naʻe ʻi ai; pea naʻe haʻu ʻae tuʻi lahi ke ne tauʻi ia, pea naʻa ne kāpui ia, pea lahi ʻaupito ʻa ʻene tanu puke ki ai.

Ukrainian Bible by P. Kulish ☆

Було невеличке собі місто, та й не так то людне. Прийшов під його великий царь, облїг його, та й поробив проти його всї боєві прилади;

Ukrainian Freedom Bible ☆

Було невеличке собі місто, та й не так то людне. Прийшов під його великий царь, облїг його, та й поробив проти його всї боєві прилади;

Vietnamese Bible 1923 ☆

Có thành nhỏ kia được một ít dân sự, một vua cường thạnh đến vây hãm nó, đắp những lũy cao lớn cùng nó.

Hebrew OT (WLC) ☆

עִ֣יר קְטַנָּ֔ה וַאֲנָשִׁ֥ים בָּ֖הּ מְעָ֑ט וּבָֽא־אֵלֶ֜יהָ מֶ֤לֶךְ גָּדוֹל֙ וְסָבַ֣ב אֹתָ֔הּ וּבָנָ֥ה עָלֶ֖יהָ מְצוֹדִ֥ים גְּדֹלִֽים׃