Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
Holman Bible
but the feeble are clothed with strength.
International Standard Version
The bows of warriors are shattered, but those who stumble are equipped with strength.
A Conservative Version
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with strength.
American Standard Version
The bows of the mighty men are broken; And they that stumbled are girded with strength.
Amplified
“The bows of the mighty are
But those who have stumbled equip themselves with strength.
Bible in Basic English
The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.
Darby Translation
The bow of the mighty is broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
Julia Smith Translation
The bows of the mighty being broken, and the weak were girded with strength.
King James 2000
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are clothed with strength.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The bows of mighty warriors [are] shattered, but those who stumble gird [themselves with] strength.
Modern King James verseion
The bows of the mighty are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The bows of the strong are broken: and the weak are endued with strength.
NET Bible
The bows of warriors are shattered, but those who stumble find their strength reinforced.
New Heart English Bible
"The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.
The Emphasized Bible
The bow of the mighty, is dismayed, - While, the fainting, are girded with strength;
Webster
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
World English Bible
"The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.
Themes
the Bow » Illustrative » (when broken,) of the overthrow of power
Joy » Instances of » Of hannah, when samuel was born
Missionaries » Exemplified » Hannah
Poetry » Lyrics, sacred » Hannah's song
Psalms » Of hannah, in thankfulness for a son
samuel » His mother's song of thanksgiving
Interlinear
Gibbowr
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Samuel 2:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Hannah's Triumphant Prayer
3 Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge is Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed. 4 Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength. 5 The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.
Cross References
Psalm 37:15
Their sword doth enter into their own heart, And their bows are shivered.
Psalm 46:9
Causing wars to cease, Unto the end of the earth, the bow he shivereth, And the spear He hath cut asunder, Chariots he doth burn with fire.
Psalm 76:3
There he hath shivered arrows of a bow, Shield, and sword, and battle. Selah.
Hebrews 11:34
quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens.
Psalm 37:17
For the arms of the wicked are shivered, And Jehovah is sustaining the righteous.
Isaiah 10:4
Without Me it hath bowed down In the place of a bound one, And in the place of the slain they fall. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.
Jeremiah 37:10
for though ye had smitten all the force of the Chaldeans who are fighting with you, and there were left of them wounded men -- each in his tent -- they rise, and have burnt this city with fire.'
2 Corinthians 4:9-10
persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
2 Corinthians 12:9
and He said to me, 'Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:
Ephesians 6:14
Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,
Philippians 4:13
For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;