18 Heb “cut off.”
19 Heb “corner towers”; , “battlements.”
20 This Hebrew verb (צָדָה, tsadah) occurs only here in the OT, but its meaning is established from the context and from an Aramaic cognate.
21 Heb “so that there is no man, without inhabitant.”

In other versions

“I have cut off nations;

their battlements are in ruins;

I have laid waste their streets

so that no one walks in them;

their cities have been made desolate,

without a man, without an inhabitant.

“I have destroyed nations;

their strongholds are demolished.

I have left their streets deserted,

with no one passing through.

Their cities are laid waste;

they are deserted and empty.

I have cut off nations;

their corner towers are destroyed.

I have laid waste their streets,

with no one to pass through.

Their cities lie devastated,

without a person, without an inhabitant.

“I have wiped out many nations,

devastating their fortress walls and towers.

Their streets are now deserted;

their cities lie in silent ruin.

There are no survivors—

none at all.

“I have cut off nations;

their strongholds are deserted.

I have laid waste their streets,

so that none pass through.

Their cities have been destroyed

and are without a man, without an inhabitant.

I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate;

I made their streets waste, that none passeth by:

Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

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