2 Samuel 22:46 “Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.”

2 Samuel 22:46

Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.

World English Bible

The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places.

American Standard Version

The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come trembling out of their close places.

Geneva Bible 1599

Strangers shall shrinke away, and feare in their priuie chambers.

Darby Translation

Strangers have faded away, And they come trembling forth from their close places.

Young's Literal Translation

Sons of a stranger fade away, And gird themselves by their close places.

Bible in Basic English

They will be wasted away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.

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Cross references

“fade away”

Isaiah 64:6 James 1:11

Isaiah 64:6 · BSB

Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

James 1:11 · BSB

For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

“out”

Micah 7:17 Isaiah 2:19 Isaiah 2:21 Amos 9:3

Micah 7:17 · BSB

They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.

Isaiah 2:19 · BSB

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

Isaiah 2:21 · BSB

They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

Amos 9:3 · BSB

Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

45Foreigners cower before me; when they hear me, they obey me.

47The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted—

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