1 Maccabees 4:32
Good News Translation
Make them afraid; let their bold strength melt away; let them tremble at the prospect of defeat.

New Revised Standard Version
Fill them with cowardice; melt the boldness of their strength; let them tremble in their destruction.

Contemporary English Version
Turn them into cowards who are too weak to fight, and make them tremble while we destroy them.

New American Bible
Strike them with cowardice, weaken the boldness of their strength, and let them tremble at their own destruction.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Strike them with fear, and cause the boldness of their strength to languish, and let them quake at their own destruction.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Strike them with fear, and cause the boldness of their strength to languish, and let them quake at their own destruction.

1 Maccabees 4:30
And they saw that the army was strong, and he prayed and said: Blessed art thou, O Saviour of Israel, who didst break the violence of the mighty by the hand of thy servant David, and didst deliver up the camp of the strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and of his armour bearer.

1 Maccabees 4:31
Shut up this army in the hands of thy people Israel, and let them be confounded in their host and their horsemen.

1 Maccabees 4:33
Cast them down with the sword of them that love thee: and let all that know thy name praise thee with hymns.

1 Maccabees 4:34
And they joined battle: and there fell of the army of Lysias five thousand men.

Context
1 Maccabees 4
31Shut up this army in the hands of thy people Israel, and let them be confounded in their host and their horsemen. 32Strike them with fear, and cause the boldness of their strength to languish, and let them quake at their own destruction. 33Cast them down with the sword of them that love thee: and let all that know thy name praise thee with hymns.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 4:30
And they saw that the army was strong, and he prayed and said: Blessed art thou, O Saviour of Israel, who didst break the violence of the mighty by the hand of thy servant David, and didst deliver up the camp of the strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and of his armour bearer.

1 Maccabees 4:31
Shut up this army in the hands of thy people Israel, and let them be confounded in their host and their horsemen.

1 Maccabees 4:33
Cast them down with the sword of them that love thee: and let all that know thy name praise thee with hymns.

1 Maccabees 4:34
And they joined battle: and there fell of the army of Lysias five thousand men.



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1 Maccabees 4:31
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