Isaiah 3:25

Young's Literal Translation

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Your men will fall by the sword,your warriors in battle.

Hebrew Names Version
Your men shall fall by the sword, And your mighty in the war.

King James Version
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

English Standard Version
Your men shall fall by the sword and your mighty men in battle.

New American Standard Bible
Your men will fall by the sword And your mighty ones in battle.

New Century Version
At that time your men will be killed with swords, and your heroes will die in war.

Amplified Bible
Your men will fall by the sword And your mighty men in battle.

World English Bible
Your men shall fall by the sword, And your mighty in the war.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thy men shall fall by the sworde, and thy strength in the battell.

Legacy Standard Bible
Your men will fall by the swordAnd your mighty ones in battle.

Berean Standard Bible
Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

Contemporary English Version
The fighting men of Jerusalem will be killed in battle.

Complete Jewish Bible
Your men will fall by the sword and your warriors in battle.

Darby Translation
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the fight;

Easy-to-Read Version
Your men will be killed with swords. Your heroes will die in war.

George Lamsa Translation
Your mighty men shall fall by the sword, and your valiant men in the battle.

Good News Translation
The men of the city, yes, even the strongest men, will be killed in war.

Lexham English Bible
Your men shall fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

Literal Translation
Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Their husbondes and their mightie men shall perish with the swerde in batell.

American Standard Version
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

Bible in Basic English
Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

King James Version (1611)
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mightie in the warre.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thy men shal perishe with the sword, and thy valiaunt souldiours in the battayle [O Hierusalem.]

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thy most beautiful son whom thou lovest shall fall by the sword; and your mighty men shall fall by the sword, and shall be brought low.

English Revised Version
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also thi faireste men schulen falle bi swerd, and thi stronge men schulen falle in batel.

Update Bible Version
Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

New English Translation
Your men will fall by the sword, your strong men will die in battle.

New King James Version
Your men shall fall by the sword, And your mighty in the war.

New Living Translation
The men of the city will be killed with the sword, and her warriors will die in battle.

New Life Bible
Your men will fall by the sword. Your strong ones will fall in battle.

New Revised Standard
Your men shall fall by the sword and your warriors in battle.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thy males, by the sword shall fall, - And, thy mighty men, by the war;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy valiant ones in battle.

Revised Standard Version
Your men shall fall by the sword and your mighty men in battle.

THE MESSAGE
Your finest fighting men will be killed, your soldiers left dead on the battlefield. The entrance gate to Zion will be clotted with people mourning their dead— A city stooped under the weight of her loss, brought to her knees by her sorrows.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Your men will fall by the sword And your mighty ones in battle.

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ `Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving [with] the eyes, Walking and mincing they go, And with their feet they make a tinkling, ¹⁷ The Lord also hath scabbed The crown of the head of daughters of Zion, And Jehovah their simplicity exposeth. ¹⁸ In that day doth the Lord turn aside The beauty of the tinkling ornaments, And of the embroidered works, And of the round tires like moons, ¹⁹ Of the drops, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, ²⁰ Of the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, And of the bands, And of the perfume boxes, and the amulets, ²¹ Of the seals, and of the nose-rings, ²² Of the costly apparel, and of the mantles, And of the coverings, and of the purses, ²³ Of the mirrors, and of the linen garments, And of the hoods, and of the vails, ²⁴ And it hath been, instead of spice is muck, And instead of a girdle, a rope, And instead of curled work, baldness, And instead of a stomacher a girdle of sackcloth. ²⁵ For instead of glory, thy men by sword do fall, And thy might in battle.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thy men: 2 Chronicles 29:9, Jeremiah 11:22, Jeremiah 14:18, Jeremiah 18:21, Jeremiah 19:7, Jeremiah 21:9, Lamentations 2:21, Amos 9:10

mighty: Heb. might

Reciprocal: Isaiah 4:1 - seven Isaiah 65:12 - will I Jeremiah 15:8 - widows

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thy men shall fall by the sword,.... Of the Romans; which would be a punishment to the women for their pride and luxury, being deprived thereby of their husbands:

and thy mighty in the war; of Vespasian and Titus, and which the Jews i call פולמוס של אספסינוס, "the war of Vespasian": in which great multitudes of men, even of mighty men, were slain.

i Misn. Sabbat, c. 6. sect. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thy men - This is an address to Jerusalem itself, by a change not uncommon in the writings of Isaiah. In the calamities coming on them, their strong men should be overcome, and fall in battle.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 3:25. Thy mighty men. — For גבורתך geburathech an ancient MS. has גבורך gibborech. The true reading, from the Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, and Chaldee, seems to be גבוריך gibborayich.