Isaiah 21:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:19-20 : 19 The camel-trains of Tema were searching with care, the bands of Sheba were waiting for them: 20 They were put to shame because of their hope; they came and their hope was gone.
  • Isa 13:14 : 14 And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.

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  • Isa 22:3
    76%

    3 All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.

  • Isa 21:14
    75%

    14 Give water to him who is in need of water; give bread, O men of the land of Tema, to those in flight.

  • Jer 6:25
    74%

    25 Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.

  • Job 20:24
    74%

    24 He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;

  • Jer 46:5
    74%

    5 What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.

  • Isa 21:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16 For so has the Lord said to me, In a year, by the years of a servant working for payment, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end:

    17 And the rest of the bowmen, the men of war of the children of Kedar, will be small in number: for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said it.

  • Amos 2:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    14 And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:

    15 And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life.

    16 And he who is without fear among the fighting men will go in flight without his clothing in that day, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 7:15-17
    3 verses
    73%

    15 Outside is the sword, and inside disease and need of food: he who is in the open country will be put to the sword; he who is in the town will come to his end through need of food and disease.

    16 And those of them who get away safely will go and be in the secret places like the doves of the valleys, all of them will come to death, every one in his sin.

    17 All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.

  • Jer 15:2
    72%

    2 And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away.

  • Jer 46:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength.

    16 ... are stopped in their going, they are falling; and they say one to another, Let us get up and go back to our people, to the land of our birth, away from the cruel sword.

  • Jer 4:29
    72%

    29 All the land is in flight because of the noise of the horsemen and the bowmen; they have taken cover in the woodland and up on the rocks: every town has been given up, not a man is living in them.

  • Isa 30:16
    72%

    16 Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you will certainly go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of quick-running beasts; so those who go after you will be quick-footed.

  • Jer 6:23
    72%

    23 Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Zion.

  • Jer 18:21
    72%

    21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

  • Jer 51:32
    72%

    32 And the ways across the river have been taken, and the water-holes ... burned with fire, and the men of war are in the grip of fear.

  • Deut 32:25
    71%

    25 Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.

  • Jer 5:16
    71%

    16 Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.

  • Josh 8:6
    71%

    6 And they will come out after us, till we have got them away from the town; for they will say, They have gone in flight from us as before; so we will go in flight before them;

  • Isa 31:8
    71%

    8 Then the Assyrian will come down by the sword, but not of man; the sword, not of men, will be the cause of his destruction: and he will go in flight from the sword, and his young men will be put to forced work.

  • Isa 13:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.

    15 Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.

  • Ezek 32:20
    71%

    20 Among those who have been put to the sword: they will give a resting-place with them to all their people.

  • Jer 51:50
    71%

    50 You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.

  • Joel 2:7-8
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    71%

    7 They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.

    8 No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.

  • Lam 4:9
    71%

    9 Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.

  • Lev 26:36-37
    2 verses
    71%

    36 And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;

    37 Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.

  • 1 Chr 19:14
    71%

    14 So Joab and the people who were with him went forward into the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.

  • Jer 51:3
    71%

    3 Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse.

  • Jer 50:16
    70%

    16 Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land.

  • Isa 3:25
    70%

    25 Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

  • Lev 26:7
    70%

    7 And you will put to flight those who are against you, and they will be put to death by your swords.

  • Job 5:20
    70%

    20 When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

  • Ps 37:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14 The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

    15 But their swords will be turned into their hearts, and their bows will be broken.

  • Jer 48:45
    70%

    45 Those who went in flight from the fear are waiting under the shade of Heshbon: for a fire has gone out from Heshbon and a flame from the house of Sihon, burning up the pride of Moab and the crown of the head of the violent ones.

  • Job 30:3
    70%

    3 They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

  • Ps 21:12
    70%

    12 Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.

  • Ezek 21:15
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    15 In order that hearts may become soft, and the number of those who are falling may be increased, I have sent death by the sword against all their doors: you are made like a flame, you are polished for death.

  • Josh 8:15
    70%

    15 Then Joshua and all Israel, acting as if they were overcome before them, went in flight by way of the waste land.

  • Song 3:8
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    8 All of them armed with swords, trained in war; every man has his sword at his side, because of fear in the night.

  • 2 Kgs 7:7
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    7 So they got up and went in flight, in the half light, without their tents or their horses or their asses or any of their goods; they went in flight, fearing for their lives.

  • Lam 5:9
    70%

    9 We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.