Psalm 78:64 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶⁴ Their priests [Hophni and Phinehas] fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation [for the bodies came not back from the scene of battle, and the widow of Phinehas also died that day]. [I Sam. 4:11, 19, 20.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.

Common English Bible

⁶⁴ God’s priests were killed by the sword, and his widows couldn’t even cry.

Psalm 78:64 Cross References

Job 27:15

Those who survive them the pestilence buries, and their widows make no lamentation.

Ezekiel 24:23

Your turbans shall be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall pine away in your iniquities and groan to one another.

1 Samuel 4:11

The ark of God was captured, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

1 Samuel 4:17

The messenger replied, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great slaughter among the troops; your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”

1 Samuel 4:21

She named the child Ichabod, meaning, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

1 Samuel 4:22

She said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”