Then David said to Gad, “I am in a great distress. Let us now fall into the hand of Adonai, for His mercies are great, and let me not fall into the hand of man.”
Psalm 106:41 - Tree of Life Version He handed them to the nations— those who hated them ruled over them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; And they that hated them ruled over them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And He gave them into the hands of the [heathen] nations, and they that hated them ruled over them. American Standard Version (1901) And he gave them into the hand of the nations; And they that hated them ruled over them. Common English Bible God handed them over to the nations; people who hated them ruled over them. Catholic Public Domain Version And he helped the poor out of destitution, and he stationed families like sheep. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families like a flock of sheep. |
Then David said to Gad, “I am in a great distress. Let us now fall into the hand of Adonai, for His mercies are great, and let me not fall into the hand of man.”
“So behold, I stretched out My hand over you. I diminished your ration. I gave you over to those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your indecent conduct.
“Adonai will bring you to defeat before your enemies. You will go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. You will become a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
You will grope at noon as the blind person gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways. You will be only oppressed and robbed all the time, and there will be no one to save you.
A people you do not know will eat up the produce of your soil and all your labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed all the time.
you will serve your enemies, whom Adonai will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lacking everything; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
How can one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them and Adonai had handed them over?
Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Don’t you realize that the Philistines are ruling over us? So what is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
So the anger of Adonai burned against Israel, and He gave them over to the hands of plunderers who plundered them, and He sold them over into the hand of their enemies around them, so that they could no longer stand up before their enemies.
Bnei-Yisrael again did what was evil in Adonai’s eyes. So Adonai strengthened King Eglon of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in Adonai’s eyes.
So Adonai’s anger burned against Israel, and He sold them over into the hand of King Cushan-rishathaim of Aram-naharaim, and Bnei-Yisrael served Cushan-rishathaim for eight years.