2 Chronicles 12:8

Young's Literal Translation 1898

but they become servants to him, and they know My service, and the service of the kingdoms of the lands.'

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`Lo, we--to-day-- are servants, and the land that Thou hast given to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its good--lo, we are servants on it,

And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand.

O Jehovah our God, lords have ruled us besides Thee, Only, by Thee we make mention of Thy name.

Chastise me, O Jehovah, only in judgment, Not in Thine anger, lest Thou make me small.

Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a king of princes.

And these are the nations which Jehovah left, to try Israel by them, all who have not known all the wars of Canaan;

(only for the sake of the generations of the sons of Israel's knowing, to teach them war, only those who formerly have not known them) --