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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
הגדלתי מעשי בניתי לי בתים נטעתי לי כרמים
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
hgdlty m`SHy bnyty ly btym nt`ty ly krmym

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
magnificavi opera mea aedificavi mihi domos plantavi vineas

King James Variants
American King James Version   
I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards:
King James 2000 (out of print)   
I made myself great works; I built houses; I planted vineyards:
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
Authorized (King James) Version   
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
New King James Version   
I made my works great, I built myself houses, and planted myself vineyards.
21st Century King James Version   
I made me great work, I builded me houses, I planted me vineyards.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
Darby Bible Translation   
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
God's Word   
I accomplished some great things: I built houses for myself. I planted vineyards for myself.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
I increased my achievements. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
International Standard Version   
With respect to my extravagant works, I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.
NET Bible   
I increased my possessions: I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.
New American Standard Bible   
I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself;
New International Version   
I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards.
New Living Translation   
I also tried to find meaning by building huge homes for myself and by planting beautiful vineyards.
Webster's Bible Translation   
I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards:
The World English Bible   
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
EasyEnglish Bible   
I also did a lot of great things for myself. I built houses. I planted vineyards.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.
New Life Version   
I did great things. I built houses for myself. I planted grape-fields for myself.
The Voice Bible   
Next, I began some enormous projects, building my own houses and planting my own vineyards.
Living Bible   
Then I tried to find fulfillment by inaugurating a great public works program: homes, vineyards, gardens, parks, and orchards for myself, and reservoirs to hold the water to irrigate my plantations.
New Catholic Bible   
I undertook grandiose projects. I built houses for myself and planted vineyards.
Legacy Standard Bible   
I made my works great: I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself;
Jubilee Bible 2000   
I made myself great works; I built myself houses; I planted myself vineyards;
Christian Standard Bible   
I increased my achievements. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
I made great works; I built myself houses, I planted vineyards.
New Century Version   
Then I did great things: I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
The Message   
Oh, I did great things: built houses, planted vineyards, designed gardens and parks and planted a variety of fruit trees in them, made pools of water to irrigate the groves of trees. I bought slaves, male and female, who had children, giving me even more slaves; then I acquired large herds and flocks, larger than any before me in Jerusalem. I piled up silver and gold, loot from kings and kingdoms. I gathered a chorus of singers to entertain me with song, and—most exquisite of all pleasures— voluptuous maidens for my bed.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
I undertook great projects. I built houses for myself. I planted vineyards for myself.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself;
Good News Translation®   
I accomplished great things. I built myself houses and planted vineyards.
Wycliffe Bible   
I magnified, either made great, my works, I builded houses to me (I built houses for myself), and I planted vines;
Contemporary English Version   
I did some great things. I built houses and planted vineyards.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself;
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself;
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself;
Common English Bible © 2011   
I took on great projects: I built houses for myself, planted vineyards for myself.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
I made great works: I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself;
English Standard Version Anglicised   
I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
I undertook great works; I built myself houses and planted vineyards;
New American Standard Bible   
I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself;
The Expanded Bible   
Then I did great things: I built houses and planted vineyards for myself [1 Kin. 7:1–12; 9:15; 2 Chr. 8:1–6].
Tree of Life Version   
I increased my possessions. I built myself houses and I planted myself vineyards.
Revised Standard Version   
I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself;
New International Reader's Version   
So I started some large projects. I built houses for myself. I planted vineyards.
BRG Bible   
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
Complete Jewish Bible   
I worked on a grand scale — I built myself palaces, planted myself vineyards,
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself;
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
I undertook me great works; I built me batim (houses); I planted me kramim (vineyards);
Names of God Bible   
I accomplished some great things: I built houses for myself. I planted vineyards for myself.
Modern English Version   
I accomplished great works. I built houses for myself, and planted myself vineyards.
Easy-to-Read Version   
Then I began doing great things. I built houses, and I planted vineyards for myself.
International Children’s Bible   
Then I did great things. I built houses, and I planted vineyards for myself.
Lexham English Bible   
I accomplished great things. I built for myself houses; I planted for myself vineyards.
New International Version - UK   
I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards.