Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

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.)

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.

Context Readings

Prayer In Difficult Times

2 Thou hast caused the land to tremble, Thou hast broken it, Heal its breaches, for it hath moved. 3 Thou hast shewn Thy people a hard thing, Thou hast caused us to drink wine of trembling. 4 Thou hast given to those fearing thee an ensign. To be lifted up as an ensign Because of truth. Selah.

Cross References

Psalm 71:20

Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back -- Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back -- Thou bringest me up.

Isaiah 51:17

Stir thyself, stir thyself, rise, Jerusalem, Who hast drunk from the hand of Jehovah The cup of His fury, The goblet, the cup of trembling, thou hast drunk, Thou hast wrung out.

Isaiah 51:22

Thus said thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God, He pleadeth for his people: 'Lo, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling, The goblet, the cup of My fury, Thou dost not add to drink it any more.

Psalm 75:8

For a cup is in the hand of Jehovah, And the wine hath foamed, It is full of mixture, and He poureth out of it, Only its dregs wring out, and drink, Do all the wicked of the earth,

Jeremiah 25:15

'For thus said Jehovah God of Israel unto me, Take the wine cup of this fury out of My hand, and thou hast caused all the nations to drink it unto whom I am sending thee;

Nehemiah 9:32

And now, O our God -- God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful, keeping the covenant and the kindness -- let not all the travail that hath found us be little before Thee, for our kings, for our heads, and for our priests, and for our prophets, and for our fathers, and for all Thy people, from the days of the kings of Asshur unto this day;

Lamentations 4:21

Joy and rejoice, O daughter of Edom, Dwelling in the land of Uz, Even unto thee pass over doth a cup, Thou art drunk, and makest thyself naked.

Ezekiel 23:31-32

In the way of thy sister thou hast walked, And I have given her cup into thy hand.

Daniel 9:12

'And He confirmeth His words that He hath spoken against us, and against our judges who have judged us, to bring in upon us great evil, in that it hath not been done under the whole heavens as it hath been done in Jerusalem,

Habakkuk 2:16

Thou hast been filled -- shame without honour, Drink thou also, and be uncircumcised, Turn round unto thee doth the cup of the right hand of Jehovah, And shameful spewing is on thine honour.

Revelation 16:19

And it came -- the great city -- into three parts, and the cities of the nations did fall, and Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the wrath of His anger,

Revelation 18:16

and saying, Woe, woe, the great city, that was arrayed with fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and gilded in gold, and precious stone, and pearls -- because in one hour so much riches were made waste!

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