The overwhelming forces shall be overwhelmed from before him, and shall be broken; yes, also the prince of the covenant.
Parallel translations
- KJV And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
- BSB Then a flood of forces will be swept away before him and destroyed, along with a prince of the covenant.
- NKJV With the force of a flood they shall be swept away from before him and be broken, and also the prince of the covenant.
- NASB And the overflowing forces will be flooded away from him and smashed, and also the prince of the covenant.
- NLT Before him great armies will be swept away, including a covenant prince.
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- Dan 9:26After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
- Dan 8:10–11It grew great, even to the army of the sky; and some of the army and of the stars it cast down to the ground, and trampled on them.
- Dan 11:10His sons shall war, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall come on, and overflow, and pass through; and they shall return and war, even to his fortress.
- Dan 8:25Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and he shall destroy many in their security. He shall also stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
- Amos 8:8Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
- Nah 1:8But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
- Rev 12:15–16The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
- Amos 9:5For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.
- Isa 8:7–8now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.
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