For they have forsaken Me and have alienated this place, by burning sacrifices in it to other gods, which neither they nor their forefathers, nor the kings of Judah have known. They have also filled this place with the blood of innocents.
Judges 5:8 - Tree of Life Version They chose new gods— then war was in the gates. No shield or spear was seen among 40,000 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. |
For they have forsaken Me and have alienated this place, by burning sacrifices in it to other gods, which neither they nor their forefathers, nor the kings of Judah have known. They have also filled this place with the blood of innocents.
They abandoned Adonai, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods from among the gods of the peoples around them, and bowed down to them. So they provoked the anger of Adonai.
Yet they listened not to their judges, for they prostituted themselves after other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned aside from the way in which their fathers walked in obeying the commandments of Adonai; they did not do so.
So Bnei-Yisrael cried out to Adonai, for he had 900 iron chariots, and had harshly oppressed Bnei-Yisrael for 20 years.
Louder than the sound of archers, at the watering places! There let them rehearse the righteous acts of Adonai, the righteous deeds for His villages in Israel. Then the people of Adonai went down to the gates.
Villages were deserted in Israel, deserted, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel arose.