Psalm 144:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ and may our cattle be heavy with young. May there be no breach in the walls, no exile, and no cry of distress in our streets.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ That our oxen may be strong to labour; That there be no breaking in, nor going out; That there be no complaining in our streets.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ When our oxen are well loaded; when there is no invasion [of hostile armies] and no going forth [against besiegers–when there is no murder or manslaughter] and no outcry in our streets;

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ When our oxen are well laden; When there is no breaking in, and no going forth, And no outcry in our streets:

Common English Bible

¹⁴ so that our cattle can be loaded with calves; so that there won’t be any breach in the walls, no exile, no outcries in our streets!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ The Lord lifts up all who have fallen down, and he sets upright all who have been thrown down.

Psalm 144:14 Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:7

“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out into the field, look—those killed by the sword! And if I enter the city, look—those sick with famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade throughout the land and have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 14:2

Judah mourns, and her gates languish; they lie in gloom on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.

Isaiah 24:11

There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine; all joy has reached its eventide; the gladness of the earth is banished.

1 Samuel 31:7

When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their towns and fled, and the Philistines came and occupied them.

Judges 6:6

Thus Israel was greatly impoverished because of Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help. [[

Judges 6:3

For whenever the Israelites put in seed, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east would come up against them.

Judges 5:8

When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?

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.

Leviticus 26:6

And I will grant peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one shall make you afraid; I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword shall go through your land.

Job 39:11

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

Isaiah 65:19

I will rejoice in Jerusalem and delight in my people; no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it or the cry of distress.