2 Chronicles 20:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² O our God, will you not execute judgment upon them? For we are powerless against this great multitude that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² O our God, will You not exercise judgment upon them? For we have no might to stand against this great company that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.

Common English Bible

¹² Our God, won’t you punish them? We are powerless against this mighty army that is about to attack us. We don’t know what to do, and so we are looking to you for help.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Therefore, will you, our God, not judge them? Certainly, in us there is not enough strength so that we would be able to withstand this multitude, which rushes against us. But although we do not know what we ought to do, we have this alone remaining, that we direct our eyes to you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² O our God, wilt thou not then judge them? As for us, we have not strength enough, to be able to resist this multitude, which cometh violently upon us. But as we know not what to do, we can only turn our eyes to thee.

2 Chronicles 20:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:11

Then she said, “Please, may the king keep the Lord your God in mind, so that the avenger of blood may kill no more and my son not be destroyed.” He said, “As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”

1 Kings 1:20

But you, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

2 Kings 6:15

When an attendant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city. His servant said, “Alas, master! What shall we do?”

2 Chronicles 20:13

Meanwhile, all Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

Psalm 141:8

But my eyes are turned toward you, O God, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; do not leave me defenseless.

Psalm 25:15

My eyes are ever toward the Lord, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

Psalm 43:1

Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from those who are deceitful and unjust, deliver me!

Psalm 7:6

Rise up, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake, O my God; you have appointed a judgment.

Psalm 7:8

The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.

Psalm 9:19

Rise up, O Lord! Do not let mortals prevail; let the nations be judged before you.

Psalm 94:2

Rise up, O judge of the earth; give to the proud what they deserve!

Isaiah 2:4

He shall judge between the nations and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah 42:4

He will not grow faint or be crushed until he has established justice in the earth, and the coastlands wait for his teaching.

Isaiah 45:22

Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

Joel 3:12

Let the nations rouse themselves and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the neighboring nations.

Jonah 2:4

Then I said, ‘I am driven away from your sight; how shall I look again upon your holy temple?’

Deuteronomy 32:36

Indeed, the Lord will vindicate his people, have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, neither bond nor free remaining.

Revelation 19:11

Then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse! Its rider is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and wages war.

Judges 11:27

It is not I who have sinned against you, but you are the one who does me wrong by making war on me. Let the Lord, who is judge, decide today for the Israelites or for the Ammonites.”

1 Samuel 14:6

Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the Lord will act for us, for nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by many or by few.”

1 Samuel 3:13

For I have told him that I am about to punish his house forever for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.