Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword even no man following them, and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies:

New American Standard Bible

They will therefore stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength to stand up before your enemies.

King James Version

And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

Holman Bible

They will stumble over one another as if fleeing from a sword though no one is pursuing them. You will not be able to stand against your enemies.

International Standard Version

They'll stumble over each other as though fleeing before the sword, even though no one is pursuing.

A Conservative Version

And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when no man pursues. And ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

American Standard Version

And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

Amplified

They shall stumble over one another as if to escape from a sword when no one is chasing them; and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.

Bible in Basic English

Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.

Darby Translation

and they shall stumble one over another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth; and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

Julia Smith Translation

And they faltered each upon his brother, as from before the sword, and none pursued: and there shall be to you no power of standing before your enemies.

King James 2000

And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursues: and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And they shall stumble over {one another} as {from before} a sword, but there shall not be a pursuer; and {you shall have no resistance} {before} your enemies.

Modern King James verseion

And they shall fall on one another, as if it were before a sword, when none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

NET Bible

They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand for you before your enemies.

New Heart English Bible

They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.

The Emphasized Bible

And they shall stumble one upon another as from before a sword, when, pursuer there is none; And ye shall not have wherewith to stand before your foes;

Webster

And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

World English Bible

They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.

Youngs Literal Translation

And they have stumbled one on another, as from the face of a sword, and there is none pursuing, and ye have no standing before your enemies,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
one
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

as it were before
פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

a sword
חרב 
Chereb 
Usage: 413

and ye shall have no power to stand
תּקוּמה 
T@quwmah 
Usage: 1

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

References

Context Readings

Punishment For Disobedience

36 "'And upon them that are left alive of you, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the land of their enemies: so that the sound of a leaf that falleth, shall chase them and they shall flee as though they fled a sword, and shall fall no man following them. 37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword even no man following them, and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies: 38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

Cross References

Joshua 7:12-13

And therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They shall turn their backs before their enemies, because they be excommunicate. Neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the excommunicate from among you.

Judges 2:14

Wherefore the LORD waxed angry with Israel, and delivered them unto the hands of raveners to spoil them and sold them into the hands of their enemies round about them, so that they had no power any longer to stand before their enemies.

Numbers 14:42

go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not slain before your enemies.

Judges 7:22

And as the three hundred blew with trumpets, the LORD set every man's sword upon his neighbour, throughout all the host. And the host fled until they came to Bethshittah, to Zererah, and to the edge of Abelmeholah beside Tabbath.

1 Samuel 14:15-16

And there was a fear in the host that was in the field, and among all the people: insomuch that they that kept the hold, and they that were gone to rob, were afraid also: and the earth trembled and there was a fear sent of God.

Isaiah 10:4

That ye come not among the prisoners, or lie among the dead? After all this shall not the wrath of the LORD cease, but yet shall his hand be stretched out still.

Jeremiah 37:10

For though ye had slain the whole host of the Chaldeans that besiege you, and every one of the slain lay in his tent, yet should they stand up, and set fire upon this city.'"

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