Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.
Parallel translations
- KJV The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
- BSB The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.
- NKJV The stouthearted were plundered; They have sunk into their sleep; And none of the mighty men have found the use of their hands.
- NASB The stouthearted were plundered, They sank into sleep; And none of the warriors could use his hands.
- NLT Our boldest enemies have been plundered. They lie before us in the sleep of death. No warrior could lift a hand against us.
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- Nah 3:18Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
- Ps 13:3Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
- Jer 51:39When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.
- Isa 46:12Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!
- Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
- Luke 1:51–52He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
- Ezek 30:21–25Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword.
- Isa 31:8“The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labor.
- Isa 37:36Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
- Job 40:10–12“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.
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