Judges 5:8 - New Revised Standard Version When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They chose new gods; Then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen Among forty thousand in Israel? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [Formerly] they chose new gods; then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among 40,000 in Israel? American Standard Version (1901) They chose new gods; Then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen Among forty thousand in Israel? Common English Bible When they chose new gods, then war came to the city gates. Yet there wasn’t a shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel! Catholic Public Domain Version The Lord chose new wars, and he himself overturned the gates of the enemies. A shield with a spear was not seen among the forty thousand of Israel. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The Lord chose new wars, and he himself overthrew the gates of the enemies: a shield and spear was not seen among forty thousand of Israel. |
Because the people have forsaken me, and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent,
and they abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; they followed other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were all around them, and bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger.
Yet they did not listen even to their judges; for they lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their ancestors had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord; they did not follow their example.
Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and had oppressed the Israelites cruelly twenty years.
To the sound of musicians at the watering places, there they repeat the triumphs of the Lord, the triumphs of his peasantry in Israel. “Then down to the gates marched the people of the Lord.
The peasantry prospered in Israel, they grew fat on plunder, because you arose, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.