Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD’s.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh’s.
- BSB Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.
- NKJV “Go up on her walls and destroy, But do not make a complete end. Take away her branches, For they are not the Lord’s.
- NASB ¶“Go up through her vine rows and destroy, But do not execute a complete destruction; Strip away her branches, For they are not the Lord’s.
- NLT “Go down the rows of the vineyards and destroy the grapevines, leaving a scattered few alive. Strip the branches from the vines, for these people do not belong to the Lord.
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Quick answer
David grows ever greater because the Lord of Armies is with him. His success is credited wholly to God's presence.
Overview
The narrator sums up David's rise: he became greater and greater, and the reason given is that the Lord, the God of hosts, was with him. David's strength flows not from his own ability but from divine favor. This theme runs through Scripture, that true greatness comes from God's accompanying presence, supremely fulfilled in Christ with whom the Father was always pleased.
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- Jer 4:27For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
- Matt 22:7But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
- Jer 39:8And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
- Amos 9:8Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
- Hos 1:9Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
- Ezek 12:16But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
- Ps 78:61–62And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
- 2 Kgs 24:2–4And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
- Jer 7:4–12Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
- Isa 13:1–5The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
- Jer 46:28Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
- Jer 25:9Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
- Ezek 14:17Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
- Ezek 9:5–7And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
- Isa 10:5–7O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
- Jer 6:4–6Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
- Jer 51:20–23Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
- Jer 30:11For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
- Jer 5:18Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
- 2 Chr 36:17Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
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