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Brenton's Septuagint
1 Samuel 2:4
The bow of the mighty has waxed feeble, and the weak have girded themselves with strength.
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Christian Standard Bible®
The bows of the warriors are broken,but the feeble are clothed with strength.
The bows of the warriors are broken,but the feeble are clothed with strength.
Hebrew Names Version
The bows of the mighty men are broken; Those who stumbled are girded with strength.
The bows of the mighty men are broken; Those who stumbled are girded with strength.
King James Version
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
Lexham English Bible
The bows of mighty warriors are shattered, but those who stumble gird themselves with strength.
The bows of mighty warriors are shattered, but those who stumble gird themselves with strength.
English Standard Version
The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble bind on strength.
The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble bind on strength.
New Century Version
"The bows of warriors break, but weak people become strong.
"The bows of warriors break, but weak people become strong.
New English Translation
The bows of warriors are shattered, but those who stumble find their strength reinforced.
The bows of warriors are shattered, but those who stumble find their strength reinforced.
Amplified Bible
"The bows of the mighty are broken, But those who have stumbled equip themselves with strength.
"The bows of the mighty are broken, But those who have stumbled equip themselves with strength.
New American Standard Bible
"The bows of the mighty are broken to pieces, But those who have stumbled strap on strength.
"The bows of the mighty are broken to pieces, But those who have stumbled strap on strength.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The bow and the mightie men are broken, and the weake haue girded themselues wt strength.
The bow and the mightie men are broken, and the weake haue girded themselues wt strength.
Legacy Standard Bible
The bows of the mighty are shattered,But those who stumble gird on strength.
The bows of the mighty are shattered,But those who stumble gird on strength.
Contemporary English Version
Our Lord , you break the bows of warriors, but you give strength to everyone who stumbles.
Our Lord , you break the bows of warriors, but you give strength to everyone who stumbles.
Complete Jewish Bible
The bows of the mighty are broken, while the feeble are armed with strength.
The bows of the mighty are broken, while the feeble are armed with strength.
Darby Translation
The bow of the mighty is broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
The bow of the mighty is broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
Easy-to-Read Version
The bows of strong soldiers break, and weak people become strong.
The bows of strong soldiers break, and weak people become strong.
George Lamsa Translation
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that are weak are girded with strength.
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that are weak are girded with strength.
Good News Translation
The bows of strong soldiers are broken, but the weak grow strong.
The bows of strong soldiers are broken, but the weak grow strong.
Literal Translation
Bows of the mighty are broken; and they that stumble gird on strength.
Bows of the mighty are broken; and they that stumble gird on strength.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The bowe of the mightie is broken, and the weake are gyrded aboute with strength.
The bowe of the mightie is broken, and the weake are gyrded aboute with strength.
American Standard Version
The bows of the mighty men are broken; And they that stumbled are girded with strength.
The bows of the mighty men are broken; And they that stumbled are girded with strength.
Bible in Basic English
The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.
The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The bowe with the mightie men are broken, and they that were weake haue gyrde them selues with strength.
The bowe with the mightie men are broken, and they that were weake haue gyrde them selues with strength.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
King James Version (1611)
The vowes of the mightie men are broken, and they that stumbled are girt with strength.
The vowes of the mightie men are broken, and they that stumbled are girt with strength.
English Revised Version
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
Berean Standard Bible
The bows of the warriors are broken, but the feeble are equipped with strength.
The bows of the warriors are broken, but the feeble are equipped with strength.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The bouwe of strong men is ouercomun, and sijk men ben gird with strengthe.
The bouwe of strong men is ouercomun, and sijk men ben gird with strengthe.
Young's Literal Translation
Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.
Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.
Update Bible Version
The bows of the mighty men are broken; And those that stumbled are girded with strength.
The bows of the mighty men are broken; And those that stumbled are girded with strength.
Webster's Bible Translation
The bows of the mighty men [are] broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
The bows of the mighty men [are] broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
World English Bible
The bows of the mighty men are broken; Those who stumbled are girded with strength.
The bows of the mighty men are broken; Those who stumbled are girded with strength.
New King James Version
"The bows of the mighty men are broken, And those who stumbled are girded with strength.
"The bows of the mighty men are broken, And those who stumbled are girded with strength.
New Living Translation
The bow of the mighty is now broken, and those who stumbled are now strong.
The bow of the mighty is now broken, and those who stumbled are now strong.
New Life Bible
The bows of the powerful are broken. But the weak are dressed in strength.
The bows of the powerful are broken. But the weak are dressed in strength.
New Revised Standard
The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble gird on strength.
The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble gird on strength.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The bow of the mighty, is dismayed, - While, the fainting, are girded with strength;
The bow of the mighty, is dismayed, - While, the fainting, are girded with strength;
Douay-Rheims Bible
The bow of the mighty is overcome, and the weak are girt with strength.
The bow of the mighty is overcome, and the weak are girt with strength.
Revised Standard Version
The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble gird on strength.
The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble gird on strength.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The bows of the mighty are shattered, But the feeble gird on strength.
"The bows of the mighty are shattered, But the feeble gird on strength.
Contextual Overview
1 My heart is established in the Lord, my horn is exalted in my God; my mouth is enlarged over my enemies, I have rejoiced in thy salvation. 2 For there is none holy as the Lord, and there is none righteous as our God; there is none holy besides thee. 3 Boast not, and utter not high things; let not high-sounding words come out of your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and God prepares his own designs. 4 The bow of the mighty has waxed feeble, and the weak have girded themselves with strength. 5 They that were full of bread are brought low; and the hungry have forsaken the land; for the barren has born seven, and she that abounded in children has waxed feeble. 6 The Lord kills and makes alive; he brings down to the grave, and brings up. 7 The Lord makes poor, and makes rich; he brings low, and lifts up. 8 He lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises the needy from the dunghill; to seat him with the princes of the people, and causing them to inherit the throne of glory: 9 granting his petition to him that prays; and he blesses the years of the righteous, for by strength cannot man prevail. 10 The Lord will weaken his adversary; the Lord is holy. Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth; but let him that boasts boast in this, to understand and know the Lord, and to execute judgement and justice in the midst of the earth. The Lord has gone up to the heavens, and has thundered: he will judge the extremities of the earth, and he gives strength to our kings, and will exalt the horn of his Christ.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The bows: Psalms 37:15, Psalms 37:17, Psalms 46:9, Psalms 76:3
stumbled: Isaiah 10:4, Jeremiah 37:10, 2 Corinthians 4:9, 2 Corinthians 4:10, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Ephesians 6:14, Philippians 4:13, Hebrews 11:34
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:18 - General Psalms 65:6 - girded Jeremiah 51:56 - every Luke 1:51 - he hath scattered Luke 1:52 - put
Cross-References
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.
In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:4
And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light and the darkness.
And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light and the darkness.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth.
And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth.
Genesis 1:31
And God saw all the things that he had made, and, behold, they were very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
And God saw all the things that he had made, and, behold, they were very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Genesis 2:1
And the heavens and the earth were finished, and the whole world of them.
And the heavens and the earth were finished, and the whole world of them.
Genesis 2:2
And God finished on the sixth day his works which he made, and he ceased on the seventh day from all his works which he made.
And God finished on the sixth day his works which he made, and he ceased on the seventh day from all his works which he made.
Genesis 5:1
This is the genealogy of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God he made him:
This is the genealogy of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God he made him:
Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.
Genesis 11:10
And these are the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.
And these are the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.
Genesis 25:12
And these are the generations of Ismael the son of Abraam, whom Agar the Egyptian the hand-maid of Sarrha bore to Abraam.
And these are the generations of Ismael the son of Abraam, whom Agar the Egyptian the hand-maid of Sarrha bore to Abraam.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The bows of the mighty men are broken,.... Hannah, from relating gracious experiences, and celebrating, the divine perfections of holiness, omniscience, and sovereignty, passes on to take notice of the dealings of God with men in providence and grace; bows are here put for all military arms, which men of might and war make use of, and which God can easily break in pieces, and so make war to cease in the earth, and hinder warlike men from doing what they design and attempt; they are enfeebled and weakened by him, and their hands cannot perform their enterprises: so the bows of Satan, and his principalities and powers, are broken, and his fiery darts are quenched, and the people of the Lord enabled to stand against him, and wrestle with him and them, being strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might, as it follows:
and they that stumbled are girt with strength; who, through weakness, are ready to stumble at everything they meet with in the way; yet, being girded with strength by the Lord, are able to do great exploits, as David did, that being his case, Psalms 18:29, so such as are weak in grace, in faith, in knowledge, and ready to stumble at every trial and exercise, let it come from what quarter it will; yet being girded by the Lord with strength, are able to exercise grace, perform duty, go through every service they are called to, whether in a way of doing or suffering, to bear the yoke and cross of Christ, to oppose every enemy, to walk on in the ways of God, and to persevere in faith and holiness to the end.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Samuel 2:4. The bows of the mighty — The Targum considers the first verse as including a prophecy against the Philistines; the second verse, against Sennacherib and his army; the third, against Nebuchadnezzar and the Chaldeans; the fourth, against the Greeks; the fifth, against Haman and his posterity; and the tenth, against Magog, and the enemies of the Messiah.
