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Isaiah 3:25

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

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  • WEB World English Bible

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

  • KJV King James Version

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

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

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

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Cross-references (9)

Passages linked to Isaiah 3:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • 2 Chronicles 29:9 For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
  • Isaiah 1:20 but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
  • Jeremiah 11:22 therefore Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Behold, I will punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by famine.
  • Jeremiah 14:18 If I go out into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’ ”
  • Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.
  • Jeremiah 19:7 “ ‘ “I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.
  • Jeremiah 21:9 He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he will live, and he will escape with his life.
  • Lamentations 2:21 “The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger. You have slaughtered, and not pitied.
  • Amos 9:10 All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil won’t overtake nor meet us.’

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Explain this verse (13 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Meaning, that God will not only punish the women,…

Meaning, that God will not only punish the women, but their husbands which have suffered this dissoluteness, and also the commonweal, which hath not remedied it.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 3:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword,…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thy men shall fall by the sword,.... Of the…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 25. Thy mighty men.] For גבורתך geburathech an…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Isa 3:25-26. Thy men shall fall, &c. — We…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Thy men - This is an address to Jerusalem…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Fairest. They shall not be spared. (Calmet) --- "As…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Thy men--of Jerusalem.
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 25. And the proximate cause of all this shall…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 25. The words for “men” and “mighty” (lit. “might”)…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (25-26) Thy men . . .(26) her gates .…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thy men; rather, thy people; i.e. the inhabitants of…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 3:25 The men . . . will die in…

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