Isaiah 30:16 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁶ but you said, *No, for we will flee on horses;* therefore you will flee; and, *We will ride on the swift;* therefore those who pursue you will be swift.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And you said, No! We will speed [our own course] on horses! Therefore you will speed [in flight from your enemies]! You said, We will ride upon swift steeds [doing our own way]! Therefore will they who pursue you be swift, [so swift that]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ but ye said, No, for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ You said, “No! We’ll flee on horses”— therefore, you will indeed flee— “and we’ll ride off; on swift steeds we will ride”— therefore, your pursuers will be swift.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And you have said: "Never! Instead, we will flee by horseback." For this reason, you will be put to flight. And you have said, "We will climb upon swift ones." For this reason, those who pursue you will be even swifter.

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2 Kings 25:5

But the army of the Kasdim pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Yericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

Job 39:11

Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

Psalm 147:10

He doesn't delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

Psalm 33:17

A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver any by his great power.

Isaiah 2:7

Their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots.

Isaiah 31:1

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Yisra'el, and they don't seek the LORD!

Isaiah 31:3

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

Jeremiah 39:4

It happened that, when Tzidkiyahu the king of Yehudah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the `Aravah.

Jeremiah 4:13

Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are ruined.

Jeremiah 46:6

Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Perat have they stumbled and fallen.

Jeremiah 52:7

Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Kasdim were against the city round about;) and they went toward the `Aravah.

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Amos 9:1

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, *Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.

Micah 1:13

Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lakhish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Tziyon; For the transgressions of Yisra'el were found in you.

Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

Deuteronomy 28:25

The LORD will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The LORD will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand;