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Isaiah 21:15

For because of swordes they are become fugitiue, Euen for the drawen sworde, and for the bent bowe, and because of the greeuousnesse of warre.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Arabians;   Isaiah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ishmaelites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Arabia;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Arabians ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Medes;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ke'dar;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Arms;   Edom;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Grievous;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For they have fled from swords,from the drawn sword,from the bow that is strung,and from the stress of battle.
Hebrew Names Version
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
King James Version
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
English Standard Version
For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the press of battle.
New American Standard Bible
For they have fled from the swords, From the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, And from the press of battle.
New Century Version
They were running from swords, from swords ready to kill, from bows ready to shoot, from a hard battle.
Amplified Bible
For they have fled from the swords, From the drawn sword, from the bent bow And from the press of battle and grief of war.
World English Bible
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For they flee from the drawen swords, euen from the drawen sword, & from the bent bowe, and from the grieuousnesse of warre.
Legacy Standard Bible
For they have fled from the swords,From the drawn sword, and from the bent bowAnd from the heaviness of battle.
Berean Standard Bible
For they flee from the sword, the sword that is drawn, from the bow that is bent, and from the stress of battle.
Contemporary English Version
They are worn out and weary from being chased by enemies with swords and arrows.
Complete Jewish Bible
because they are fleeing the sword, the drawn sword, the bent bow and the press of battle.
Darby Translation
For they flee from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
Easy-to-Read Version
They were running from swords that were ready to kill. They were running from bows that were ready to shoot. They were running from a hard battle.
George Lamsa Translation
For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword and from the bent bow and from the grievousness of war.
Good News Translation
People are fleeing to escape from swords that are ready to kill them, from bows that are ready to shoot, from all the dangers of war.
Lexham English Bible
For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword and the bent bow, and from the heaviness of the battle.
Literal Translation
For they fled from before swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the press of battle.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For thei shal runne awaye from the weapen, from the drawe swerde, from the bet bowe, and from the greate batell.
American Standard Version
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
Bible in Basic English
For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
King James Version (1611)
For they fled from the swords, from the drawen sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grieuousnesse of warre.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
meet the fugitives with bread, because of the multitude of the slain, and because of the multitude of them that lose their way, and because of the multitude of swords, and because of the multitude of bent bows, and because of the multitude of them that have fallen in war.
English Revised Version
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thei fledden fro the face of swerdis, fro the face of swerd neiyynge, fro the face of bouwe bent, fro the face of greuouse batel.
Update Bible Version
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
Webster's Bible Translation
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
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.
New King James Version
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, From the bent bow, and from the distress of war.
New Living Translation
They have fled from the sword, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow and the terrors of battle.
New Life Bible
They are running from swords, from lifted swords, from bows that are ready to shoot, and from the trouble of battle.
New Revised Standard
For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the stress of battle.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, before swords, have they fled: Before a sword that is drawn, Before a bow that is bent, And before the stress of war.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.
Revised Standard Version
For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the press of battle.
Young's Literal Translation
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For they have fled from the swords, From the drawn sword, and from the bent bow And from the press of battle.

Contextual Overview

13 The burthen concernyng Arabia. In the wooddes of Arabia shall ye tary all nyght, euen in the streetes of Dedanim. 14 The inhabitours of the lande of Thema brought foorth water to hym that was thirstie, they preuented hym that was fled away with their bread. 15 For because of swordes they are become fugitiue, Euen for the drawen sworde, and for the bent bowe, and because of the greeuousnesse of warre. 16 For thus hath the Lorde sayde vnto me: There is yet a yere, accordyng to the yeres of an hired seruaunt, and all the glorie of Cedar shall fayle. 17 And the number of them that shall escape from the bowes, shalbe minished by the mightie children of Cedar: for the Lorde God of Israel hath spoken it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

from the swords: or, for fear of the swords, Heb. from the face of, Job 6:19, Job 6:20

Reciprocal: Isaiah 23:6 - Pass

Cross-References

Genesis 21:1
The Lord visited Sara as he had promised, and did vnto her accordyng as he had spoke.
Genesis 21:3
And Abraham called his sonnes name that was borne vnto him, whiche Sara bare hym, Isahac.
Genesis 21:14
And so Abraham rose vp early in the mornyng, and tooke bread, and a bottel of water, and gaue it vnto Hagar, puttyng it on her shoulder, and the lad also, and sent her away: who departing, wandered vp and downe in the wildernesse of Beer seba.
Genesis 21:22
And at the same season, Abimelech and Phicol his chiefe captayne spake vnto Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:
Genesis 21:25
And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a wel of water, which Abimeleches seruauntes had violently taken away.
2 Kings 3:9
And so the king of Israel toke his iourney, and the king of Iuda, and the king of Edom: And when they had compassed the way seuen dayes, they had no water for the hoast, and for the cattayle that folowed them.
Psalms 63:1
O Lorde thou art my Lorde: early in the morning I do seeke thee.
Isaiah 44:12
The smith maketh an axe, and tempereth it with hotte coales, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with all the strength of his armes, yea sometime he is fainte for very hunger, and so thirstie that he hath no more power.
Jeremiah 14:3
The Lordes sent their seruauntes to fetche water, and when they came to the welles, they did finde no water, but caried their vessels home emptie: they be ashamed and confounded, and couer their heades.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For they fled from the swords,.... Of their enemy, whom they could not withstand; perhaps the Assyrian army:

from the drawn sword; just ready to be sheathed in them:

and from the bent bow; just going to let the arrow fly at them:

and from the grievousness of war: too heavy for them to bear.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For they fled - The inhabitants of one part of the land.

The grievousness of war - Hebrew, כבד kobed - “the weight, the heaviness, the oppression” of war; probably from the calamities that would result from the march of the Assyrian through their land, either on his way to Judea or to Egypt.


 
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