Isaiah 21:15
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
American King James Version (AKJV)
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
American Standard Version (ASV)
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.
Webster's Revision
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
World English Bible
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
English Revised Version (ERV)
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
Barnes's Isaiah 21:15 Bible Commentary
For they fled - The inhabitants of one part of the land.
The grievousness of war - Hebrew, כבד kobed - "the weight, the heaviness, the oppression" of war; probably from the calamities that would result from the march of the Assyrian through their land, either on his way to Judea or to Egypt.
