Psalm 20:8 - English Standard Version 2016 They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright. Matoleo zaidiKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They are brought down and fallen: But we are risen, and stand upright. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They are bowed down and fallen, but we are risen and stand upright. American Standard Version (1901) They are bowed down and fallen; But we are risen, and stand upright. Common English Bible They will collapse and fall, but we will stand up straight and strong. Catholic Public Domain Version Because the king hopes in the Lord, and in the mercy of the Most High, he will not be disturbed. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For the king hopeth in the Lord: and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved. |
By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest lodging place, its most fruitful forest.
And Asa went out to meet him, and they drew up their lines of battle in the Valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
And Asa cried to the Lord his God, “O Lord, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.”
For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, “The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.”
Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
The king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
The war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by its great might it cannot rescue.
The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.
I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.
Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.
“So may all your enemies perish, O Lord! But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.” And the land had rest for forty years.
Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.