They will say, "As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave."
NIV
The unburied bones [of slaughtered rulers] shall lie scattered at the mouth of Sheol, [as unregarded] as the lumps of soil behind the plowman when he breaks open the ground. [II Cor. 1:9.]AMP
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
KJV
The hooves of his horses will trample all your streets; he will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground.
NIV
With the hoofs of his horses [Nebuchadrezzar] will trample all your streets; he will slay your people with the sword and your strong pillars or obelisks will fall to the ground.
AMP
With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.
KJV
He pursues them and moves on unscathed, by a path his feet have not traveled before.
NIV
He [Cyrus] pursues them and passes safely and unhindered, even by a way his feet had not trod and so swiftly that his feet do not touch the ground.
AMP
He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
KJV
People will be continually employed in cleansing the land. They will spread out across the land and, along with others, they will bury any bodies that are lying on the ground. "After the seven months they will carry out a more detailed search."
NIV
And they shall set apart men to work continually who shall pass through the land, men commissioned to bury, with the help of those who are passing by, those bodies that lie unburied on the face of the ground, in order to cleanse the land. After the end of seven months they shall make their search.
AMP
And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
KJV
