Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.)

New American Standard Bible

You have made Your people experience hardship;
You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger.

King James Version

Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

Holman Bible

You have made Your people suffer hardship;
You have given us wine to drink
that made us stagger.

International Standard Version

You made your people go through hard times; you had us drink wine that makes us stagger.

A Conservative Version

Thou have shown thy people hard things. Thou have made us to drink the wine of staggering.

American Standard Version

Thou hast showed thy people hard things: Thou hast made us to drink the wine of staggering.

Amplified


You have made Your people experience hardship;
You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger and fall.

Darby Translation

Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us to drink the wine of bewilderment.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou didst cause thy people to see a hard thing: thou didst give us to drink the wine of reeling.

King James 2000

You have shown your people hard things: you have made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You have shown your people hard [things]; You have given us wine that staggers.

Modern King James verseion

You have shown Your people hard things; You have made us to drink the wine of trembling.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou hast showed thy people heavy things; thou hast given us a drink of deadly wine.

NET Bible

You have made your people experience hard times; you have made us drink intoxicating wine.

New Heart English Bible

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

The Emphasized Bible

Thou hast suffered thy people to see hardship, Thou hast let them drink the wine of confusion.

Webster

Thou hast shown thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

World English Bible

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thou hast shewn Thy people a hard thing, Thou hast caused us to drink wine of trembling.

Context Readings

Prayer In Difficult Times

2 You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink. 3 Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.) 4 So that your loved ones may be made safe, let your right hand be my salvation, and give me an answer.


Cross References

Psalm 71:20

You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

Isaiah 51:17

Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.

Isaiah 51:22

This is the word of the Lord your master, even your God who takes up the cause of his people: See, I have taken out of your hand the cup which overcomes, even the cup of my wrath; it will not again be given to you:

Psalm 75:8

For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.

Jeremiah 25:15

For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said to me: Take the cup of the wine of this wrath from my hand, and make all the nations to whom I send you take of it.

Nehemiah 9:32

And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.

Lamentations 4:21

Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz: the cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen.

Ezekiel 23:31-32

You have gone in the way of your sister; and I will give her cup into your hand.

Daniel 9:12

And he has given effect to his words which he said against us and against those who were our judges, by sending a great evil on us: for under all heaven there has not been done what has been done to Jerusalem.

Habakkuk 2:16

You are full of shame in place of glory: take your part in the drinking, and let your shame be uncovered: the cup of the Lord's right hand will come round to you and your glory will be covered with shame.

Revelation 16:19

And the great town was cut into three parts, and the towns of the nations came to destruction: and Babylon the great came into mind before God, to be given the cup of the wine of his wrath.

Revelation 18:16

Saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, she who was clothed in delicate linen, and purple, and red; with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels!

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