Isaiah 30:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ and said, “No! We will flee upon horses”— therefore you shall flee! and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”— therefore your pursuers shall be swift!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And you said, No! We will speed [our own course] on horses! Therefore you will speed [in flight from your enemies]! You said, We will ride upon swift steeds [doing our own way]! Therefore will they who pursue you be swift, [so swift that]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ but ye said, No, for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ You said, “No! We’ll flee on horses”— therefore, you will indeed flee— “and we’ll ride off; on swift steeds we will ride”— therefore, your pursuers will be swift.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And you have said: "Never! Instead, we will flee by horseback." For this reason, you will be put to flight. And you have said, "We will climb upon swift ones." For this reason, those who pursue you will be even swifter.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ But have said: No, but we will flee to horses: therefore shall you flee. And we will mount upon swift ones: therefore shall they be swifter that shall pursue after you.

Isaiah 30:16 Krydshenvisninger

2 Kings 25:5

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; all his army was scattered, deserting him.

Job 39:11

Will you depend on it because its strength is great, and will you hand over your labor to it?

Psalm 147:10

His delight is not in the strength of the horse nor his pleasure in the speed of a runner,

Psalm 33:17

The war horse is a vain hope for victory, and by its great might it cannot save.

Isaiah 2:7

Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots.

Isaiah 31:1

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and who rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the Lord!

Isaiah 31:3

The Egyptians are human and not God; their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and the one helped will fall, and they will all perish together.

Jeremiah 39:4

When King Zedekiah of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, going out of the city at night by way of the King’s Garden through the gate between the two walls, and they went toward the Arabah.

Jeremiah 4:13

Look! He comes up like clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles— woe to us, for we are ruined!

Jeremiah 46:6

The swift cannot flee away, nor can the warrior escape; in the north by the River Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen.

Jeremiah 52:7

Then a breach was made in the city wall, and all the soldiers fled and went out from the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the King’s Garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles in the heavens; they chased us on the mountains; they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

Amos 9:1

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake and shatter them on the heads of all the people, and those who are left I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away, not one of them shall escape.

Micah 1:13

Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; it was the beginning of sin to daughter Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.

Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses are swifter than leopards, more menacing than wolves at dusk; their horses charge. Their horsemen come from far away; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.

Deuteronomy 28:25

“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out against them one way and flee before them seven ways. You shall become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the end of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,