Isaiah 21:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For from the face of destructions they fled, From the face of a stretched-out sword, And from the face of a trodden bow, And from the face of the grievousness of battle.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:19-20 : 19 Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them. 20 They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded.
  • Isa 13:14 : 14 And it hath been, as a roe driven away, And as a flock that hath no gatherer, Each unto his people -- they turn, And each unto his land -- they flee.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 22:3
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    3All thy rulers fled together from the bow, Bound have been all found of thee, They have been kept bound together, Afar off they have fled.

  • Isa 21:14
    75%

    14To meet the thirsty brought water have Inhabitants of the land of Tema, With his bread they came before a fugitive.

  • Jer 6:25
    74%

    25Go not forth to the field, And in the way walk not, For a sword hath the enemy, fear `is' round about.

  • Job 20:24
    74%

    24He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.

  • Jer 46:5
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    5Wherefore have I seen them dismayed -- They are turned backward, And their mighty ones are beaten down, And `to' a refuge they have fled, and not turned the face? Fear `is' round about -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

  • Isa 21:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16For thus said the Lord unto me: `Within a year, as years of a hireling, Consumed hath been all the honour of Kedar.

    17And the remnant of the number of bow-men, The mighty of the sons of Kedar are few, For Jehovah, God of Israel, hath spoken!'

  • Amos 2:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    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!

  • Ezek 7:15-17
    3 verses
    73%

    15The sword `is' without, And the pestilence and the famine within, He who is in a field by sword dieth, And he who is in a city, Famine and pestilence devour him.

    16And escaped away have their fugitives, And they have been on the mountains As doves of the valleys, All of them make a noising -- each for his iniquity.

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

  • Jer 15:2
    72%

    2And it hath come to pass, when they say to thee, Whither do we go out? that thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah: Those who `are' for death -- to death, And those who are for the sword, to the sword, And those who are for famine, to famine, And those who are for captivity, to captivity.

  • Jer 46:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15Wherefore hath thy bull been swept away? He hath not stood, because Jehovah thrust him away.

    16He hath multiplied the stumbling, Yea one hath fallen upon his neighbour, And they say: Rise, and we turn back to our people, And unto the land of our birth, Because of the oppressing sword.

  • Jer 4:29
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    29From the voice of the horseman, And of him shooting with the bow, all the city is fleeing, They have come into thickets, And on cliffs they have gone up, All the city is forsaken, And there is no one dwelling in them.

  • Isa 30:16
    72%

    16And ye say, No, for on a horse we flee? Therefore ye flee, And on the swift we ride! Therefore swift are your pursuers.

  • Jer 6:23
    72%

    23Bow and javelin they take hold of, Fierce it `is', and they have no mercy, Their voice as a sea doth sound, And on horses they ride, set in array as a man of war, Against thee, O daughter of Zion.

  • Jer 18:21
    72%

    21Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,

  • Jer 51:32
    72%

    32And the passages have been captured, And the reeds they have burnt with fire, And the men of war have been troubled.

  • Deut 32:25
    71%

    25Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers -- fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.

  • Jer 5:16
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    16Its quiver `is' as an open sepulchre, All of them -- mighty ones.

  • Josh 8:6
    71%

    6and they have come out after us till we have drawn them out of the city, for they say, They are fleeing before us as at the first, and we have fled before them,

  • Isa 31:8
    71%

    8And fallen hath Asshur by sword, not of the high, Yea, a sword -- not of the low, doth consume him, And he hath fled for himself from the face of a sword, And his young men become tributary.

  • Isa 13:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14And it hath been, as a roe driven away, And as a flock that hath no gatherer, Each unto his people -- they turn, And each unto his land -- they flee.

    15Every one who is found is thrust through, And every one who is added falleth by sword.

  • Ezek 32:20
    71%

    20In the midst of the pierced of the sword they fall, `To' the sword she hath been given, They drew her out, and all her multitude.

  • Jer 51:50
    71%

    50Ye escaped of the sword, go on, stand not, Remember ye from afar Jehovah, And let Jerusalem come up on your heart.

  • Joel 2:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7As mighty ones they run, As men of war they go up a wall, And each in his own ways they do go, And they embarrass not their paths.

    8And each his brother they press not, Each in his way they go on, If by the missile they fall, they are not cut off.

  • Lam 4:9
    71%

    9Better have been the pierced of a sword Than the pierced of famine, For these flow away, pierced through, Without the increase of the field.

  • Lev 26:36-37
    2 verses
    71%

    36`And those who are left of you -- I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled -- flight from a sword -- and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing.

    37And they have stumbled one on another, as from the face of a sword, and there is none pursuing, and ye have no standing before your enemies,

  • 1 Chr 19:14
    71%

    14And Joab draweth nigh, and the people who `are' with him, before Aram to battle, and they flee from his face;

  • Jer 51:3
    71%

    3Let not the treader tread his bow, Nor lift himself up in his coat of mail, Nor have ye pity on her young men, Devote ye to destruction all her host.

  • Jer 50:16
    70%

    16Cut off the sower from Babylon, And him handling the sickle in the time of harvest, Because of the oppressing sword, Each unto his people -- they turn, And each to his land -- they flee.

  • Isa 3:25
    70%

    25For instead of glory, thy men by sword do fall, And thy might in battle.

  • Lev 26:7
    70%

    7`And ye have pursued your enemies, and they have fallen before you by the sword;

  • Job 5:20
    70%

    20In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.

  • Ps 37:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • Jer 48:45
    70%

    45In the shadow of Heshbon stood powerless have fugitives, For fire hath gone forth from Heshbon, And a flame from within Sihon, And it consumeth the corner of Moab, And the crown of the sons of Shaon.

  • Job 30:3
    70%

    3With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,

  • Ps 21:12
    70%

    12For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.

  • Ezek 21:15
    70%

    15To melt the heart, and to multiply the ruins, By all their gates I have set the point of a sword. Ah, it is made for brightness, Wrapt up for slaughter.

  • Josh 8:15
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    15And Joshua and all Israel `seem' stricken before them, and flee the way of the wilderness,

  • Song 3:8
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    8All of them holding sword, taught of battle, Each his sword by his thigh, for fear at night.

  • 2 Kgs 7:7
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    7And they rise and flee in the twilight, and forsake their tents, and their horses, and their asses -- the camp as it `is' -- and flee for their life.

  • Lam 5:9
    70%

    9With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.