All the nations surrounded me, but in Yahweh’s name, I cut them off.
Parallel translations
- KJV All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.
- BSB All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- NKJV All nations surrounded me, But in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.
- NASB ¶All nations surrounded me; In the name of the Lord I will certainly fend them off.
- NLT Though hostile nations surrounded me, I destroyed them all with the authority of the Lord.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 88:17They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.
- Rev 20:8–9and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
- 2 Sam 8:1–18After this, David struck the Philistines and subdued them; and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.
- Ps 18:40You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
- Zech 14:1–3Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided within you.
- 2 Sam 10:1–19After this, the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.
- Zech 12:3It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.
- Rev 19:19–21I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army.
- 2 Sam 5:1–25Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
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