I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
Parallel translations
- KJV I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
- BSB how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!
- NKJV I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn My hand against their adversaries.
- NASB “I would quickly subdue their enemies And turn My hand against their adversaries.
- NLT How quickly I would then subdue their enemies! How soon my hands would be upon their foes!
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Cross-references & the web
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- Judg 2:20–23Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel; and he said, “Because this nation transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to my voice,
- Amos 1:8I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines will perish,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- Josh 23:13know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
- Num 14:9Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”
- Num 14:45Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.
- Ps 47:3He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.
- Zech 13:7“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
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