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A Warning to the Daughters of Zion

Isaiah 3:25

In 11 translations

BSB
Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.
KJV
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.mighty: Heb. might
WEB
Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.
ASV
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
LSV
For instead of glory, your men fall by sword, || And your might in battle.
YLT
For instead of glory, thy men by sword do fall, And thy might in battle.
DBY
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the fight;
DRC
Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy valiant ones in battle.
GNV
Thy men shall fall by the sworde, and thy strength in the battell.
JPS
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
LXXE
And thy most beautiful son whom thou lovest shall fall by the sword; and your mighty men shall fall by the sword, and shall be brought low.

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Original-language editions

WLC
מְתַ֖יִךְ בַּחֶ֣רֶב יִפֹּ֑לוּ וּגְבוּרָתֵ֖ךְ בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ὁ υἱός σου ὁ κάλλιστος ὃν ἀγαπᾷς, μαχαίρᾳ πεσεῖται· καὶ οἱ ἰσχύοντες ὑμῶν, μαχαίρᾳ πεσοῦνται, καὶ ταπεινωθήσονται·

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword…
  • Amos 9:10All the sinners among My people will die by the sword— all those who say, ‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’”
  • Isaiah 1:20But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
  • Lamentations 2:21Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
  • Jeremiah 21:9Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.
  • Jeremiah 19:7And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds…
  • Jeremiah 14:18If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”
  • 2 Chronicles 29:9For behold, this is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity.
  • Jeremiah 11:22So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

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