Proverbs 21:31

Geneva Bible (1560)

The horse is prepared against the day of battell: but saluation is of the Lord.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 31:1 : 1 Woe vnto them that goe downe into Egypt for helpe, and stay vpon horses, and trust in charets, because they are many, and in horsemen, because they be very strong: but they looke not vnto the holy one of Israel, nor seeke vnto the Lord.
  • Ps 3:8 : 8 Saluation belongeth vnto the Lorde, and thy blessing is vpon thy people. Selah.
  • Ps 20:7 : 7 Some trust in chariots, & some in horses: but we will remember the Name of ye Lord our God.
  • Ps 33:17-18 : 17 A horse is a vaine helpe, and shall not deliuer any by his great strength. 18 Beholde, the eye of the Lorde is vpon them that feare him, and vpon them, that trust in his mercie,
  • Ps 68:20 : 20 This is our God, euen the God that saueth vs: and to the Lord God belong the issues of death.
  • Ps 144:10 : 10 It is he that giueth deliuerance vnto Kings, and rescueth Dauid his seruant from the hurtfull sworde.
  • Ps 147:10 : 10 He hath not pleasure in the strength of an horse, neither delighteth he in the legs of man.
  • Eccl 9:11 : 11 I returned, and I sawe vnder the sunne that the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor also riches to men of vnderstanding, neither yet fauour to men of knowledge: but time and chance commeth to them all.
  • Jer 3:23 : 23 Truly the hope of the hilles is but vaine, nor the multitude of mountaines: but in the Lorde our God is the health of Israel.
  • Ps 3:3 : 3 But thou Lorde art a buckler for me: my glory, and the lifter vp of mine head.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 33:16-18
    3 verses
    84%

    16 The King is not saued by the multitude of an hoste, neither is the mightie man deliuered by great strength.

    17 A horse is a vaine helpe, and shall not deliuer any by his great strength.

    18 Beholde, the eye of the Lorde is vpon them that feare him, and vpon them, that trust in his mercie,

  • 30 There is no wisedome, neither vnderstanding, nor counsell against the Lord.

  • 7 Some trust in chariots, & some in horses: but we will remember the Name of ye Lord our God.

  • 15 Nor he that handleth the bowe, shal stand, and he that is swift of foote, shall not escape, neyther shall he that rideth the horse, saue his life.

  • 1 Woe vnto them that goe downe into Egypt for helpe, and stay vpon horses, and trust in charets, because they are many, and in horsemen, because they be very strong: but they looke not vnto the holy one of Israel, nor seeke vnto the Lord.

  • Job 39:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18 (39:21) When time is, he mounteth on hie: he mocketh the horse and his rider.

    19 (39:22) Hast thou giuen the horse strength? or couered his necke with neying?

  • 6 For with counsel thou shalt enterprise thy warre, and in the multitude of them that can giue counsell, is health.

  • 21 And by thee wil I breake horse and horseman, and by thee will I breake the charet & him that rideth therein.

  • Jer 46:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 Make readie buckler and shielde, and goe forth to battell.

    4 Make readie the horses, and let the horsemen get vp, and stande vp with your sallets, fourbish the speares, and put on the brigandines.

  • 10 He hath not pleasure in the strength of an horse, neither delighteth he in the legs of man.

  • 17 Ye shall not neede to fight in this battell: stand still, moue not, and behold the saluation of the Lord towardes you: O Iudah, and Ierusalem, feare ye not, neither be afraid: to morow goe out against them, and the Lord wilbe with you.

  • 1 When thou shalt go forth to warre against thine enemies, and shalt see horses & charets, & people moe then thou, be not afrayde of them: for the Lorde thy God is with thee, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

  • 9 Be ye not like an horse, or like a mule, which vnderstand not: whose mouthes thou doest binde with bit and bridle, least they come neere thee.

  • 31 The way of God is vncorrupt: the word of the Lorde is tryed in the fire: he is a shield to all that trust in him.

  • 16 For ye haue sayd, No, but we wil flee away vpon horses. Therefore shall ye flee. We will ride vpon the swiftest. Therefore shall your persecuters be swifter.

  • 7 And thy chiefe valleis were full of charets, and the horsemen set themselues in aray against the gate.

  • Nah 3:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2 The noyse of a whippe, and the noyse of the mouing of the wheeles, and the beating of the horses, and the leaping of the charets.

    3 The horseman lifteth vp both the bright sword, and the glittering speare, and a multitude is slaine, and the dead bodyes are many: there is none ende of their corpses: they stumble vpon their corpses,

  • 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh and not spirite: and when the Lorde shall stretch out his hand, the helper shall fall, and hee that is holpen shal fall, and they shall altogether faile.

  • 1 The preparations of the heart are in man: but the answere of the tongue is of the Lord.

  • 6 At thy rebuke, O God of Iaakob, both the chariot and horse are cast a sleepe.

  • 39 But the saluation of the righteous men shalbe of the Lord: he shalbe their strength in the time of trouble.

  • 15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Iudah, and ye inhabitantes of Ierusalem, and thou, King Iehoshaphat: thus saith the Lord vnto you, Feare you not, neither be afraide for this great multitude: for the battel is not yours, but Gods.

  • 33 The lot is cast into the lappe: but the whole disposition thereof is of the Lord.

  • 22 Then were the horsehooues broken with the oft beating together of their mightie men.

  • 31 A lusty grayhound, and a goate, and a King against whom there is no rising vp.

  • 29 This also commeth from the Lorde of hostes, which is wonderfull in counsell, and excellent in workes.

  • 21 Many deuises are in a mans heart: but the counsell of the Lord shall stand.

  • 28 Whose arrowes shall be sharpe, and all his bowes bent: his horse hoofes shal be thought like flint, and his wheeles like a whirlewinde.

  • 30 The way of God is vncorrupt: the worde of the Lord is tried in the fire: he is a shield to all that trust in him.

  • 7 Because the King trusteth in the Lord, and in the mercie of the most High, he shall not slide.

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    10 The dust of his horses shall couer thee, for their multitude: thy walles shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheeles, and of the charets, when he shall enter into thy gates as into the entrie of a citie that is broken downe.

    11 With the hooues of his horses shall he treade downe all thy streetes: he shall slay thy people by the sworde, and the pillars of thy strength shall fall downe to the ground.

  • 6 And there shall be stabilitie of thy times, strength, saluation, wisdome and knowledge: for the feare of the Lord shalbe his treasure.

  • 26 For the Lorde shall be for thine assurance, and shall preserue thy foote from taking.

  • 3 Though an hoste pitched against me, mine heart should not be afraide: though warre be raised against me, I will trust in this.

  • 32 God girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way vpright.

  • 8 Their horses also are swifter then the leopards, and are more fierce then the wolues in the euening: and their horsemen are many: & their horsemen shall come from farre: they shall flie as the eagle hasting to meate.

  • 10 The Name of the Lorde is a strong tower: the righteous runneth vnto it, and is exalted.

  • 21 (39:24) He diggeth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: he goeth foorth to meete the harnest man.

  • 1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The King shall reioyce in thy stregth, O Lord: yea how greatly shal he reioyce in thy saluatio!

  • Ps 118:8-9
    2 verses
    67%

    8 It is better to trust in the Lorde, then to haue confidence in man.

    9 It is better to trust in the Lorde, then to haue confidence in princes.

  • 7 O Lord God the strength of my saluation, thou hast couered mine head in the day of battel.

  • 3 At the noise and stamping of ye hoofes of his strong horses, at the noise of his charets, and at the rumbling of his wheeles: ye fathers shall not looke backe to their children, for feeblenes of handes,

  • 4 In that day, sayeth the Lorde, I will smite euery horse with stonishment, and his rider with madnesse, and I will open mine eyes vpon the house of Iudah, and will smite euery horse of the people with blindnesse.