Psalms 89:43
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle.”
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“You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword, And hast not made him to stand in the battle.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Also--Thou turnest back the sharpness of his sword, And hast not established him in battle,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 89:43 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 26:36As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
- Numbers 14:42Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.
- Numbers 14:45Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them all the way to Hormah.
- Joshua 7:4So about three thousand men went up, but they fled before the men of Ai.
- Joshua 7:8O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?
- 2 Chronicles 25:8Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will make you stumble before the enemy, for God has power to help and power to overthrow.”
- Psalms 44:10You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
- Lamentations 2:17The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.
- Ezekiel 30:21“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. See, it has not been bound up for healing, or splinted for strength to hold the sword.
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