Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.
Parallel translations
- WEB Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
- KJV Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
- NKJV Everyone who is found will be thrust through, And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
- NASB Anyone who is found will be thrust through, And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
- NLT Anyone who is captured will be cut down— run through with a sword.
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Quick answer
Everyone caught will be killed by the sword. The judgment on Babylon is severe and complete.
Overview
Those found and captured fall by the sword, depicting the merciless reality of the city's overthrow. The harshness reflects the ancient warfare through which God's judgment came. It sobers the reader to the gravity of God's wrath against an empire of cruelty and pride.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Isa 14:19–22But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.
- Jer 50:25The LORD has opened His armory and brought out His weapons of wrath, for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
- Jer 51:3–4Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!
- Jer 50:35–42A sword is against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, against those who live in Babylon, and against her officials and wise men.
- Isa 47:9–14These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.
- Jer 50:27Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come—the time of their punishment.
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