Isaiah 21:15
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New International Version (©2011)
They flee from the sword, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow and from the heat of battle.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They have fled from the sword, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow and the terrors of battle.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the press of battle.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For they have fled from the swords, From the drawn sword, and from the bent bow And from the press of battle.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
For they have fled from swords, from the drawn sword, from the bow that is strung, and from the stress of battle.

International Standard Version (©2012)
For he has fled from swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle."

NET Bible (©2006)
For they flee from the swords--from the drawn sword and from the battle-ready bow and from the severity of the battle.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They flee from swords, from swords ready to kill, from bows ready to shoot, and from the thick of battle.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the distress of war.

American King James Version
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

American Standard Version
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.

Darby Bible Translation
For they flee from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

English Revised Version
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
For from the face of destructions they fled, From the face of a stretched-out sword, And from the face of a trodden bow, And from the face of the grievousness of battle.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:13-17 The Arabians lived in tents, and kept cattle. A destroying army shall be brought upon them, and make them an easy prey. We know not what straits we may be brought into before we die. Those may know the want of necessary food who now eat bread to the full. Neither the skill of archers, nor the courage of mighty men, can protect from the judgments of God. That is poor glory, which will thus quickly come to nothing. Thus hath the Lord said to me; and no word of his shall fall to the ground. We may be sure the Strength of Israel will not lie. Happy are those only whose riches and glory are out of the reach of invaders; all other prosperity will speedily pass away.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 15. - For they fled; rather, they have fled. The Dedanites have been attacked with sword and bow, and have fled from their assailants. Probably the enemy was Assyria, but no trace of the war has been found on the Assyrian monuments.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For they fled from the swords,.... Of their enemy, whom they could not withstand; perhaps the Assyrian army:

from the drawn sword; just ready to be sheathed in them:

and from the bent bow; just going to let the arrow fly at them:

and from the grievousness of war: too heavy for them to bear.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

15. they—the fugitive Dedanites and other Arabs.

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A Prophecy against Arabia
13The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall you lodge, O you traveling companies of Dedanim. 14The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. 15For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

Isaiah 13:14 Like a hunted gazelle, like sheep without a shepherd, they will all return to their own people, they will flee to their native land.
Isaiah 13:15 Whoever is captured will be thrust through; all who are caught will fall by the sword.
Isaiah 17:13 Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters, when he rebukes them they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweed before a gale.
Isaiah 22:3 All your leaders have fled together; they have been captured without using the bow. All you who were caught were taken prisoner together, having fled while the enemy was still far away.
Isaiah 31:8 "Assyria will fall by no human sword; a sword, not of mortals, will devour them. They will flee before the sword and their young men will be put to forced labor.
Isaiah 33:3 At the uproar of your army, the peoples flee; when you rise up, the nations scatter.