Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
Holman Bible
but the
International Standard Version
The priests fell by the sword, yet their widows couldn't weep.
American Standard Version
Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.
Amplified
His priests [Hophni and Phinehas] fell by the sword,
And His widows could not weep.
Bible in Basic English
Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them.
Darby Translation
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
Julia Smith Translation
His priests fell by the sword, and his widows wept not
King James 2000
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
Lexham Expanded Bible
His priests fell by the sword, and his widows did not weep.
Modern King James verseion
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows were not able to weep.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Their priests were slain with the sword, and there were no widows to made lamentation.
NET Bible
Their priests fell by the sword, but their widows did not weep.
New Heart English Bible
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.
The Emphasized Bible
His priests, by the sword, did fall, And, his widows, were not able to bewail.
Webster
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
World English Bible
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.
Youngs Literal Translation
His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.
Themes
Jews, the » Punished for » Idolatry
Widow's » Not to be deplored by, considered a great calamity
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 78:64
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lessons From Israel's Past
63 Fire devoured their young men, and their virgins had no marriage-song. 64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation. 65 Then LORD awoke as out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:17
And he who brought the news answered and said, Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. And thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
Job 27:15
Those who remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall make no lamentation.
1 Samuel 4:11
And the ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were killed.
Ezekiel 24:23
And your turbans shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet. Ye shall not mourn nor weep, but ye shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
1 Samuel 2:33-34
And the man of thine, [whom] I shall not cut off from my altar, [shall be] to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy heart. And all the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age.
1 Samuel 4:19-20
And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered. And when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth, fo
1 Samuel 22:18-19
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod.