Then he bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should turn to look at such a dead dog like me?”
2 Kings 8:13 - Tree of Life Version Then Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do anything of such magnitude?” Elisha answered, “Adonai has shown me that you will be king over Aram.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Hazael said, What is your servant, only a dog, that he should do this monstrous thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord has shown me that you will be king over Syria. American Standard Version (1901) And Hazael said, But what is thy servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, Jehovah hath showed me that thou shalt be king over Syria. Common English Bible Hazael replied, “How could your servant, who is nothing but a dog, do such mighty things?” Elisha said, “The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Aram.” Catholic Public Domain Version And Hazael said, "But what am I, your servant, a dog, that I would do this great thing?" And Elisha said, "The Lord has revealed to me that you will be the king of Syria." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Hazael said: But what am I thy servant a dog, that I should do this great thing? And Eliseus said: The Lord hath shewn me that thou shalt be king of Syria. |
Then he bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should turn to look at such a dead dog like me?”
Then Adonai said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus, and when you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram,
Elisha said to him, “Go, say to him: ‘You will surely recover.’ However, Adonai has also shown me that he will surely die.”
My strength is dried up like a clay pot, my tongue clings to my jaws. You lay me in the dust of death.
But You, Adonai, be not far off! O my strength! Come quickly to my aid!
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable—who can know it?
Oy to them who scheme wickedness, who work out evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning, they do it, for the power is in their hands.
“Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet, then turn and rip you to shreds.
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the mutilation.
Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Then the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” Then the Philistine cursed David by his gods.