Ezekiel 39:3

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Then I will strike the bow from your left hand and dash down the arrows from your right hand.”

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BSBPD

“Then I will strike the bow from your left hand and dash down the arrows from your right hand.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And have smitten thy bow out of thy left hand, Yea, thine arrows out of thy right I cause to fall.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 39:3 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 46:9He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire.
  2. Psalms 46:10“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”
  3. Psalms 76:3There He shattered the flaming arrows, the shield and sword and weapons of war. Selah
  4. Psalms 76:4You are resplendent with light, more majestic than mountains filled with game.
  5. Jeremiah 21:4this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.
  6. Ezekiel 20:21But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
  7. Hosea 1:5And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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