For thou didst gird me with strength for the battle; thou didst make my assailants sink under me.
1 Samuel 2:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble gird on strength. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The bows of the mighty men are broken, And they that stumbled are girded with strength. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The bows of the mighty are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with strength. American Standard Version (1901) The bows of the mighty men are broken; And they that stumbled are girded with strength. Common English Bible The bows of mighty warriors are shattered, but those who were stumbling now dress themselves in power! Catholic Public Domain Version The bow of the powerful has been overwhelmed, and the weak have been girded with strength. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The bow of the mighty is overcome: and the weak are girt with strength. |
For thou didst gird me with strength for the battle; thou didst make my assailants sink under me.
their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken; but the Lord upholds the righteous.
“Be still, and know that I am God. I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth!”
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear, he burns the chariots with fire!
There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah
Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.
For even if you should defeat the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men, every man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.’ ”
for a destroyer has come upon her, upon Babylon; her warriors are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for the Lord is a God of recompense, he will surely requite.
but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets—
quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.