Isaiah 21:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For they flee from the swords– from the drawn sword and from the battle-ready bow and from the severity of the battle.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:19-20 : 19 The caravans of Tema looked intently for these streams; the traveling merchants of Sheba hoped for them. 20 They were distressed, because each one had been so confident; they arrived there, but were disappointed.
  • Isa 13:14 : 14 Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 3 All your leaders ran away together– they fled to a distant place; all your refugees were captured together– they were captured without a single arrow being shot.

  • 14 Bring out some water for the thirsty. You who live in the land of Tema, bring some food for the fugitives.

  • 25 Do not go out into the countryside. Do not travel on the roads. For the enemy is there with sword in hand. They are spreading terror everywhere.”

  • 24 If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.

  • 5 “What do I see! The soldiers are frightened. They are retreating. They are being scattered. They have fled for refuge without looking back. Terror is all around them,” says the LORD.

  • Isa 21:16-17
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    73%

    16 For this is what the Lord has told me:“Within exactly one year all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.

    17 Just a handful of archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be left.” Indeed, the LORD God of Israel has spoken.

  • Amos 2:14-16
    3 verses
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    14 Fast runners will find no place to hide; strong men will have no strength left; warriors will not be able to save their lives.

    15 Archers will not hold their ground; fast runners will not save their lives, nor will those who ride horses.

    16 Bravehearted warriors will run away naked in that day.” The LORD is speaking!

  • Ezek 7:15-17
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    15 The sword is outside; pestilence and famine are inside the house. Whoever is in the open field will die by the sword, and famine and pestilence will consume everyone in the city.

    16 Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan– each one for his iniquity.

    17 All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine.

  • 2 If they ask you,‘Where should we go?’ tell them the LORD says this:“Those who are destined to die of disease will go to death by disease. Those who are destined to die in war will go to death in war. Those who are destined to die of starvation will go to death by starvation. Those who are destined to go into exile will go into exile.”

  • Jer 46:15-16
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    15 Why will your soldiers be defeated? They will not stand because I, the LORD, will thrust them down.

    16 I will make many stumble. They will fall over one another in their hurry to flee. They will say,‘Get up! Let’s go back to our own people. Let’s go back to our homelands because the enemy is coming to destroy us.’

  • 29 At the sound of the approaching horsemen and archers the people of every town will flee. Some of them will hide in the thickets. Others will climb up among the rocks. All the cities will be deserted. No one will remain in them.

  • 16 You say,‘No, we will flee on horses,’ so you will indeed flee. You say,‘We will ride on fast horses,’ so your pursuers will be fast.

  • 23 Its soldiers are armed with bows and spears. They are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride forth on their horses. Lined up in formation like men going into battle to attack you, Daughter Zion.’”

  • 21 So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.

  • 32 They will report that the fords have been captured, the reed marshes have been burned, the soldiers are terrified.

  • 25 The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.

  • 16 All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.

  • 6 They will attack us until we have lured them from the city, for they will say,‘They are retreating from us like before.’ We will retreat from them.

  • 8 Assyria will fall by a sword, but not one human-made; a sword not made by humankind will destroy them. They will run away from this sword and their young men will be forced to do hard labor.

  • Isa 13:14-15
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    14 Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.

    15 Everyone who is caught will be stabbed; everyone who is seized will die by the sword.

  • 20 They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; they carry her and all her hordes away.

  • 50 You who have escaped the sword, go, do not delay. Remember the LORD in a faraway land. Think about Jerusalem.

  • Joel 2:7-8
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    7 They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. Each one proceeds on his course; they do not alter their path.

    8 They do not jostle one another; each of them marches straight ahead. They burst through the city defenses and do not break ranks.

  • 9 ט(Tet) Those who died by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, those who waste away, struck down from lack of food.

  • Lev 26:36-37
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    36 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.

    37 They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand for you before your enemies.

  • 14 So Joab and his men marched toward the Arameans to do battle, and they fled before him.

  • 3 Do not give her archers time to string their bows or to put on their coats of armor. Do not spare any of her young men. Completely destroy her whole army.

  • 16 Kill all the farmers who sow the seed in the land of Babylon. Kill all those who wield the sickle at harvest time. Let all the foreigners return to their own people. Let them hurry back to their own lands to escape destruction by that enemy army.

  • 25 Your men will fall by the sword, your strong men will die in battle.

  • 7 You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword.

  • 20 In time of famine he will redeem you from death, and in time of war from the power of the sword.

  • Ps 37:14-15
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    70%

    14 Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.

    15 Their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

  • 45 In the shadows of the walls of Heshbon those trying to escape will stand helpless. For a fire will burst forth from Heshbon. Flames will shoot out from the former territory of Sihon. They will burn the foreheads of the people of Moab, the skulls of those war-loving people.

  • 3 gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste.

  • 12 For you make them retreat when you aim your arrows at them.

  • 15 So hearts melt with fear and many stumble. At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter. Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!

  • 15 Joshua and all Israel pretended to be defeated by them and they retreated along the way to the wilderness.

  • 8 All of them are skilled with a sword, well-trained in the art of warfare. Each has his sword at his side, to guard against the terrors of the night.

  • 7 So they got up and fled at dusk, leaving behind their tents, horses, and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.

  • 9 At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the wilderness.