Exodus 14:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering aimlessly in the land; the wilderness has closed in on them.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, They are entangled in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

Common English Bible

³ Pharaoh will think to himself, The Israelites are lost and confused in the land. The desert has trapped them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And Pharaoh will say about the sons of Israel, 'They have been confined by the land; the desert has enclosed them.'

Exodus 14:3 Cross References

Acts 4:28

to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

Ezekiel 38:17

Thus says the Lord God: Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?

Psalm 139:4

Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely.

Psalm 139:2

You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away.

Psalm 71:11

They say, “Pursue and seize that person whom God has forsaken, for there is no one to deliver.”

Psalm 3:2

many are saying to me, “There is no help for you in God.” Selah

1 Samuel 23:23

Look around and learn all the hiding places where he lurks and come back to me with sure information. Then I will go with you, and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

1 Samuel 23:7

Now it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, “God has given him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars.”

Deuteronomy 31:21

And when many terrible troubles come upon them, this song will confront them as a witness because it will not be lost from the mouths of their descendants. For I know what they are inclined to do even now, before I have brought them into the land that I promised them on oath.”

Judges 16:2

The Gazites were told, “Samson has come here.” So they circled around and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They kept quiet all night, thinking, “Let us wait until the light of the morning; then we will kill him.”

Exodus 14:2

“Tell the Israelites to turn back and camp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you shall camp opposite it, by the sea.

Exodus 14:4

I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, so that I will gain glory for myself over Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.” And they did so.