so as not to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain? For all this his anger has not turned away; his hand is stretched out still.
Leviticus 26:37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though no one pursues, and you shall have no power to stand against your enemies. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They shall stumble over one another as if to escape a sword when no one pursues them; and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. American Standard Version (1901) And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. Common English Bible They will stumble over each other as they would before a sword, even though no one is chasing them! You will have no power to stand before your enemies. Catholic Public Domain Version And they will each fall upon their brothers, as if they were fleeing from wars; no one among you will dare to resist your foes. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they shall every one fall upon their brethren as fleeing from wars: none of you shall dare to resist your enemies. |
so as not to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain? For all this his anger has not turned away; his hand is stretched out still.
Even if you defeated the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you and there remained of them only wounded men in their tents, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.
Your multitude stumbled and fell, and one said to another, “Come, let us go back to our own people and to the land of our birth, because of the destroying sword.”
Therefore thus says the Lord: See, I am laying before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; parents and children together, neighbor and friend shall perish.
I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down by your enemies; your foes shall rule over you, and you shall flee though no one pursues you.
Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, piles of dead, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over the bodies!
Do not go up, for the Lord is not with you; do not let yourselves be struck down before your enemies.
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers who plundered them, and he sold them into the power of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
When they blew the three hundred trumpets, the Lord set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army, and the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.
The Philistines drew up in line against Israel, and when the battle was joined, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the field of battle.