Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.
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- KJV Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
- BSB Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.
- NKJV Now therefore, get up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.
- NASB So now, arise by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.
- NLT Come by night with an army and hide out in the fields.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Prov 1:11–16If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
- Prov 4:16For they don’t sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
- Rom 3:15“Their feet are swift to shed blood.
- Job 24:14–17The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
- Ps 36:4He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
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