He said, If the LORD doesn't help you, whence shall I help you? out of the threshing floor, or out of the winepress?
1 Samuel 28:16 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Shemu'el said, Why then do you ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from you, and is become your adversary? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Samuel said, Why then do you ask me, seeing that the Lord has turned from you and has become your enemy? American Standard Version (1901) And Samuel said, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing Jehovah is departed from thee, and is become thine adversary? Common English Bible “Why do you ask me,” Samuel said, “since the LORD has turned away from you and has become your enemy? Catholic Public Domain Version And Samuel said, "Why do you question me, though the Lord has withdrawn from you, and has crossed over to your rival? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Samuel said: Why askest thou me, seeing the Lord has departed from thee, and is gone over to thy rival? |
He said, If the LORD doesn't help you, whence shall I help you? out of the threshing floor, or out of the winepress?
He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right hand as an adversary, Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Tziyon he has poured out his wrath like fire.
The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Yisra'el; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Yehudah mourning and lamentation.
*Rejoice over her, O heaven, you holy ones, emissaries, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.*
In her was found the blood of prophets and of holy ones, and of all who have been slain on the earth.*
So let all your enemies perish, LORD, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises forth in its strength. The land had rest forty years.
Shemu'el said to Sha'ul, Why have you disquieted me, to bring me up? Sha'ul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Pelishtim make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.
The LORD has done to you, as he spoke by me: and the LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to David.