Judges 5:21
New International Version
The river Kishon swept them away, the age-old river, the river Kishon. March on, my soul; be strong!

New Living Translation
The Kishon River swept them away— that ancient torrent, the Kishon. March on with courage, my soul!

English Standard Version
The torrent Kishon swept them away, the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. March on, my soul, with might!

Berean Standard Bible
The River Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the River Kishon. March on, O my soul, in strength!

King James Bible
The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

New King James Version
The torrent of Kishon swept them away, That ancient torrent, the torrent of Kishon. O my soul, march on in strength!

New American Standard Bible
“The torrent of Kishon swept them away, The ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. My soul, march on with strength!

NASB 1995
“The torrent of Kishon swept them away, The ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. O my soul, march on with strength.

NASB 1977
“The torrent of Kishon swept them away, The ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. O my soul, march on with strength.

Legacy Standard Bible
The river of Kishon swept them away, The ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, march on with strength.

Amplified Bible
“The torrent Kishon swept the enemy away, The ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. O my soul, march on with strength.

Christian Standard Bible
The river Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the river Kishon. March on, my soul, in strength!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The river Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the river Kishon. March on, my soul, in strength!

American Standard Version
The river Kishon swept them away, That ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, march on with strength.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
In the valley of Qishon the Torrent of Qishon and the Torrent of Qarmin overwhelmed them. My soul shall tread upon power!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The brook of Kison swept them away, the ancient brook, the brook Kison: my mighty soul will trample him down.

Contemporary English Version
and his soldiers were swept away by the ancient Kishon River. I will march on and be brave.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The torrent of Cison dragged their carcasses, the torrent of Cadumim, the torrent of Cisoii: tread thou, my soul, upon the strong ones.

English Revised Version
The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, march on with strength.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The Kishon River swept them away- that old river, the Kishon. I must march on with strength!

Good News Translation
A flood in the Kishon swept them away--the onrushing Kishon River. I shall march, march on, with strength!

International Standard Version
The current of the Kishon River swept them downstream, that ancient current, the Kishon's current! March on strongly, my soul!

JPS Tanakh 1917
The brook Kishon swept them away, That ancient brook, the brook Kishon. O my soul, tread them down with strength.

Literal Standard Version
The Brook of Kishon swept them away, | The most ancient brook—the Brook of Kishon. You tread down strength, O my soul!

Majority Standard Bible
The River Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the River Kishon. March on, O my soul, in strength!

New American Bible
The Wadi Kishon swept them away; the wadi overwhelmed them, the Wadi Kishon. Trample down the strong!

NET Bible
The Kishon River carried them off; the river confronted them--the Kishon River. Step on the necks of the strong!

New Revised Standard Version
The torrent Kishon swept them away, the onrushing torrent, the torrent Kishon. March on, my soul, with might!

New Heart English Bible
The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.

Webster's Bible Translation
The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

World English Bible
The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.

Young's Literal Translation
The brook Kishon swept them away, The brook most ancient -- the brook Kishon. Thou dost tread down strength, O my soul!

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Song of Deborah and Barak
20From the heavens the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera. 21The River Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the River Kishon. March on, O my soul, in strength! 22Then the hooves of horses thundered—the mad galloping of his stallions.…

Cross References
Exodus 15:2
The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father's God, and I will exalt Him.

1 Kings 18:40
Then Elijah ordered them, "Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let a single one escape." So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.

Psalm 44:5
Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.


Treasury of Scripture

The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, you have trodden down strength.

Kishon

Judges 4:7,13
And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand…

1 Kings 18:40
And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

Psalm 83:9,10
Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: …

O my soul

Genesis 49:18
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

Psalm 44:5
Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

Isaiah 25:10
For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.

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(21) The river of Kishon.--Judges 4:7; Psalm 83:9. Either from this massacre, or that of the Baal priests of Elijah, the Kishon is now called the Nahr Mukatta, or "river of slaughter" (1Kings 18:40).

That ancient river.--The Vulgate renders this, "the torrent Kedumim," and the LXX. (Cod. Vat.), "the river of the ancients" (comp. Deuteronomy 33:15). The Chaldee paraphrases it, "the torrent on whose banks illustrious deeds have been done from the ancient times of Israel." As the Plain of Jezreel has been in all ages the battle-field of Israel, the Kishon must always have played an important part in these struggles, as when the Turks were drowned in its swollen waves on April 16th, 1799. We know, however, of no ancient fame of Kishon before these events; and some render it. "the torrent of meeting armies," or "of slaughters" (Ewald), deriving Kedumim from an Arabic root; or "the torrent of succours," connecting the word with Kiddeem (see Psalm 79:8, &c., Heb.). Aquila renders it by "the torrent of siroccos" (Kaus?n?n); and Symmachus, "the torrent of goats" (wild waves, egers, and bores). . . .

Verse 21. - Ancient. The word so rendered is only found here. The brook of ancient days, or things, probably means the brook celebrated from of old by the warlike deeds done on its banks.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The River
נַ֤חַל (na·ḥal)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5158: A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft

Kishon
קִישׁוֹן֙ (qî·šō·wn)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 7028: Kishon -- a wadi in the plain of Megiddo

swept them away,
גְּרָפָ֔ם (gə·rā·p̄ām)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1640: To bear off violently

the ancient
קְדוּמִ֖ים (qə·ḏū·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6917: A pristine hero

river,
נַ֥חַל (na·ḥal)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5158: A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft

the River
נַ֣חַל (na·ḥal)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5158: A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft

Kishon.
קִישׁ֑וֹן (qî·šō·wn)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 7028: Kishon -- a wadi in the plain of Megiddo

March on,
תִּדְרְכִ֥י (tiḏ·rə·ḵî)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 1869: To tread, to walk, to string a, bow

O my soul,
נַפְשִׁ֖י (nap̄·šî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

in strength!
עֹֽז׃ (‘ōz)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5797: Strength, might


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