“Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
Parallel translations
- KJV The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
- BSB “Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!
- NKJV “The beauty of Israel is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
- NASB “Your beauty, Israel, is slaughtered on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
- NLT Your pride and joy, O Israel, lies dead on the hills! Oh, how the mighty heroes have fallen!
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Cross-references · 11
- 2 Sam 1:27How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!”
- 2 Sam 1:25How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the battle! Jonathan was slain on your high places.
- Deut 4:7–8For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
- Lam 5:16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
- Lam 2:1How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, And hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
- Zech 11:10I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
- 1 Sam 31:8On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
- Zech 11:7So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.
- Isa 4:2In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.
- 2 Sam 1:23Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions.
- Isa 53:2For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
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