Will you rely on it for its great strength? Will you leave your labor to it?
Psalm 144:14 - Tree of Life Version Our oxen bear a heavy load. There is no breach, no going into captivity, no outcry in our streets. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 That our oxen may be strong to labour; That there be no breaking in, nor going out; That there be no complaining in our streets. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When our oxen are well loaded; when there is no invasion [of hostile armies] and no going forth [against besiegers–when there is no murder or manslaughter] and no outcry in our streets; American Standard Version (1901) When our oxen are well laden; When there is no breaking in, and no going forth, And no outcry in our streets: Common English Bible so that our cattle can be loaded with calves; so that there won’t be any breach in the walls, no exile, no outcries in our streets! Catholic Public Domain Version The Lord lifts up all who have fallen down, and he sets upright all who have been thrown down. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The Lord lifteth up all that fall: and setteth up all that are cast down. |
Will you rely on it for its great strength? Will you leave your labor to it?
In the streets is an outcry for wine; all joy becomes dark as evening; the mirth of the land is banished.
Then I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and be glad in My people. No longer will the voice of weeping or the voice of crying be heard in her.
If I go out into the field, see, those slain by the sword! And if I enter into the city, see, the sick with famine! For both prophet and kohen will travel to a land they do not know.
Judah will mourn, and her gates languish. They will bow in black to the ground And Jerusalem’s wail will go up.
“I will bring shalom in the land, and you will lie down, with no one making you afraid. I will remove dangerous beasts from the land and no sword will pass through your land.
“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.
“Adonai will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck down before you. They will come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
They chose new gods— then war was in the gates. No shield or spear was seen among 40,000 in Israel!
Whenever Israel had done their sowing, the Midianites, Amalekites and people from the east would come up and raid them.
So Israel was brought very low because of Midian, and Bnei-Yisrael cried out to Adonai.
When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those across the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the towns and fled. Then the Philistines came and occupied them.