This is the word the Lord has spoken against him: Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and scorns you; Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head behind your back.
Job 39:18 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised When she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 What time she lifteth up herself on high, She scorneth the horse and his rider. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Yet when she lifts herself up in flight, [so swift is she that] she can laugh to scorn the horse and his rider. American Standard Version (1901) What time she lifteth up herself on high, She scorneth the horse and his rider. Common English Bible When she flaps her wings high, she laughs at horse and rider. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet, when the time is right, she raises her wings on high; she ridicules the horse and his rider. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high: she scorneth the horse and his rider. |
This is the word the Lord has spoken against him: Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and scorns you; Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head behind your back.
For God has deprived her of wisdom; he has not endowed her with understanding.
Do you give strength to the horse? Do you adorn his neck with a mane?
He laughs at fear, since he is afraid of nothing; he does not run from the sword.
It scoffs at the noise of the village and never hears the shouts of a driver.
A club is regarded as stubble, and he laughs at the sound of a javelin.
You will laugh at destruction and hunger and not fear the land’s wild creatures.