1 Samuel 2:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 37:15 : 15 Their sword doth enter into their own heart, And their bows are shivered.
  • Ps 46:9 : 9 Causing wars to cease, Unto the end of the earth, the bow he shivereth, And the spear He hath cut asunder, Chariots he doth burn with fire.
  • Ps 76:3 : 3 There he hath shivered arrows of a bow, Shield, and sword, and battle. Selah.
  • Heb 11:34 : 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens.
  • Ps 37:17 : 17 For the arms of the wicked are shivered, And Jehovah is sustaining the righteous.
  • Isa 10:4 : 4 Without Me it hath bowed down In the place of a bound one, And in the place of the slain they fall. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.
  • Jer 37:10 : 10 for though ye had smitten all the force of the Chaldeans who are fighting with you, and there were left of them wounded men -- each in his tent -- they rise, and have burnt this city with fire.'
  • 2 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested,
  • 2 Cor 12:9 : 9 and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:
  • Eph 6:14 : 14 Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,
  • Phil 4:13 : 13 For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 5The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.

  • Ps 37:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.

    15Their sword doth enter into their own heart, And their bows are shivered.

  • 17For the arms of the wicked are shivered, And Jehovah is sustaining the righteous.

  • 9Who is brightening up the spoiled against the strong, And the spoiled against a fortress cometh.

  • 35Teaching my hands for battle, And brought down was a bow of brass by mine arms,

  • 34Teaching my hands for battle, And a bow of brass was brought down by my arms.

  • 4The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen.

  • 5Spoiled themselves have the mighty of heart, They have slept their sleep, And none of the men of might found their hands.

  • 10The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.

  • 15And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken.

  • 25From his rising are the mighty afraid, From breakings they keep themselves free.

  • Nah 2:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Come up hath a scatterer to thy face, Keep the bulwark, watch the way, Strengthen the loins, strengthen power mightily.

    2For turned back hath Jehovah to the excellency of Jacob, As `to' the excellency of Israel, For emptied them out have emptiers, And their branches they have marred.

  • 27How have the mighty fallen, Yea, the weapons of war perish!'

  • 3Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge `is' Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.

  • 21Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.

  • 10Beat your ploughshares to swords, And your pruning-hooks to javelins, Let the weak say, `I `am' mighty.'

  • 40And Thou girdest me `with' strength for battle, Thou causest my withstanders to bow under me.

  • Amos 2:14-16
    3 verses
    71%

    14And perished hath refuge from the swift, And the strong strengtheneth not his power, And the mighty delivereth not his soul.

    15And the handler of the bow standeth not, And the swift with his feet delivereth not `himself', And the rider of the horse delivereth not his soul.

    16And the courageous of heart among the mighty, Naked doth flee in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah!

  • 8They -- they have bowed and have fallen, And we have risen and station ourselves upright.

  • 15And bowed down is the low, and humbled the high, And the eyes of the haughty become low,

  • 9Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

  • 7In their taking hold of thee by thy hand, -- thou art crushed, And hast rent to them all the shoulder, And in their leaning on thee thou art broken, And hast caused all their thighs to stand.

  • 19Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth.

  • 5Ceased hath the golden one. Broken hath Jehovah the staff of the wicked, The sceptre of rulers.

  • 4Because the yoke of its burden, And the staff of its shoulder, the rod of its exactor, Thou hast broken as `in' the day of Midian.

  • 16Its quiver `is' as an open sepulchre, All of them -- mighty ones.

  • 3There he hath shivered arrows of a bow, Shield, and sword, and battle. Selah.

  • 39And Thou girdest me `with' strength for battle, Causest my withstanders to bow under me.

  • 17All the hands are feeble, and all knees go -- waters.

  • 3Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.

  • Isa 40:29-30
    2 verses
    70%

    29He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might.

    30Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble,

  • 22A city of the mighty hath the wise gone up, And bringeth down the strength of its confidence.

  • 4for the weapons of our warfare `are' not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,

  • 10He is bruised -- he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.

  • 4As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, So `are' the sons of the young men.

  • 14Bound hath been the yoke of my transgressions by His hand, They are wrapped together, They have gone up on my neck, He hath caused my power to stumble, The Lord hath given me into hands, I am not able to rise.

  • 5He doth remember his honourable ones, They stumble in their goings, They hasten `to' its wall, and prepared is the covering.

  • 23Left have been thy ropes, They strengthen not rightly their mast, They have not spread out a sail, Then apportioned hath been a prey of much spoil, The lame have taken spoil.

  • 14Jehovah is supporting all who are falling, And raising up all who are bowed down.

  • 32God! who is girding me `with' strength, And He maketh perfect my way.

  • 30Ceased have the mighty of Babylon to fight, They have remained in strongholds, Failed hath their might, they have become woman, They have burnt her tabernacles, Broken have been her bars.

  • 15And I instructed -- I strengthened their arms, And concerning Me they think evil!

  • 5I get me to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.' Surely they together have broken the yoke, They have drawn away the bands.

  • 17She hath girded with might her loins, And doth strengthen her arms.

  • 10Jehovah -- broken down are His adversaries, Against them in the heavens He thundereth: Jehovah judgeth the ends of earth, And giveth strength to His king, And exalteth the horn of His anointed.'