Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Parallel translations
- KJV Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
- BSB Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
- NKJV Blessed be the Lord, Who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
- NASB ¶Blessed be the Lord, Who has not given us to be torn by their teeth.
- NLT Praise the Lord, who did not let their teeth tear us apart!
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Ps 118:13You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.
- Exod 15:9–10The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’
- Ps 145:5–6Of the glorious majesty of your honor, of your wondrous works, I will meditate.
- Isa 10:14–19My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”
- Ps 17:9from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.
- 1 Sam 26:20Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”
- Judg 5:30–31‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments, a plunder of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the plunder?’
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