I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can’t arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet.
Parallel translations
- KJV And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
- BSB I devoured and crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.
- NKJV And I have destroyed them and wounded them, So that they could not rise; They have fallen under my feet.
- NASB “And I have devoured them and smashed them, so that they would not rise; And they fell under my feet.
- NLT I consumed them; I struck them down so they did not get up; they fell beneath my feet.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Mal 4:3You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Mal 4:1“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
- Ps 18:37I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.
- Ps 110:1A Psalm by David. Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
- Ps 110:5–6The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
- Ps 118:10–12All the nations surrounded me, but in Yahweh’s name, I cut them off.
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