Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

They cause him to run on the edge of the sword, A portion for foxes they are.

New American Standard Bible

They will be delivered over to the power of the sword;
They will be a prey for foxes.

King James Version

They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.

Holman Bible

They will be given over to the power of the sword;
they will become the jackals’ prey.

International Standard Version

May they be given over to the power of the sword; may they become carrion for jackals.

A Conservative Version

They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be a portion for foxes.

American Standard Version

They shall be given over to the power of the sword: They shall be a portion for foxes.

Amplified


They will be given over to the power of the sword;
They will be a prey for foxes.

Darby Translation

They shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be the portion of foxes.

Julia Smith Translation

They shall deliver to the hands of the sword; they shall be a portion of foxes.

King James 2000

They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.

Lexham Expanded Bible

They [who] would {deliver him to the sword} will become a portion for jackals.

Modern King James verseion

They shall fall by the sword; they shall be a serving for jackals.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

They shall fall into the sword, and be a portion for foxes.

NET Bible

Each one will be handed over to the sword; their corpses will be eaten by jackals.

New Heart English Bible

They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.

The Emphasized Bible

Every one shall be given up into the power of the sword, The portion of jackals, shall they become.

Webster

They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.

World English Bible

They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.

References

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Fox

Fausets

Fox

Hastings

Morish

Fox

Watsons

Fox

Context Readings

Praise God Who Satisfies

9 And they who for desolation seek my soul, Go in to the lower parts of the earth. 10 They cause him to run on the edge of the sword, A portion for foxes they are. 11 And the king doth rejoice in God, Boast himself doth every one swearing by Him, But stopped is the mouth of those speaking lies!


Cross References

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,

Ezekiel 35:5

Because of thy having an enmity age-during, And thou dost saw the sons of Israel, By the hands of the sword, In the time of their calamity, In the time of the iniquity of the end:

1 Samuel 26:10

And David saith, 'Jehovah liveth; except Jehovah doth smite him, or his day come that he hath died, or into battle he go down, and hath been consumed --

1 Samuel 31:1-6

And the Philistines are fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel flee from the face of the Philistines, and fall wounded in mount Gilboa,

Song of Songs 2:15

Seize ye for us foxes, Little foxes -- destroyers of vineyards, Even our sweet-smelling vineyards.

Ezekiel 39:4

On mountains of Israel thou fallest, Thou, and all thy bands, and the peoples who are with thee, To ravenous fowl -- a bird of every wing, And to a beast of the field, I have given thee for food.

Ezekiel 39:17-20

And thou, son of man, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Say to the bird -- every wing, and to every beast of the field: Be assembled and come in, Be gathered from round about, For My sacrifice that I am sacrificing for you, A great sacrifice on mountains of Israel, And ye have eaten flesh, and drunk blood.

Revelation 19:17-18

And I saw one messenger standing in the sun, and he cried, a great voice, saying to all the birds that are flying in mid-heaven, 'Come and be gathered together to the supper of the great God,

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