Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancing, the prancing of their strong ones.
Parallel translations
- KJV Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
- BSB Then the hooves of horses thundered—the mad galloping of his stallions.
- NKJV Then the horses’ hooves pounded, The galloping, galloping of his steeds.
- NASB “Then the horses’ hoofs beat From the galloping, the galloping of his mighty stallions.
- NLT Then the horses’ hooves hammered the ground, the galloping, galloping of Sisera’s mighty steeds.
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- Ps 20:7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust the name of Yahweh our God.
- Mic 4:13Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass; and you will beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain to Yahweh, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
- Ps 33:17A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver any by his great power.
- Ps 147:10–11He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
- Isa 5:28whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.
- Jer 47:4because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.
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