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Exodus 15:9

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

KJV

Dixit inimicus : Persequar et comprehendam, dividam spolia, implebitur anima mea : evaginabo gladium meum, interficiet eos manus mea.

Vulgate

εἶπεν ὁ ἐχθρός Διώξας καταλήμψομαι· μεριῶ σκῦλα, ἐμπλήσω ψυχήν μου, ἀνελῶ τῇ μαχαίρῃ μου, κυριεύσει ἡ χείρ μου.

LXX

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

ASV

אָמַ֥ר אוֹיֵ֛ב אֶרְדֹּ֥ף אַשִּׂ֖יג אֲחַלֵּ֣ק שָׁלָ֑ל תִּמְלָאֵ֣/מוֹ נַפְשִׁ֔/י אָרִ֣יק חַרְבִּ֔/י תּוֹרִישֵׁ֖/מוֹ יָדִֽ/י

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אָרִ֥יק
'ryq
verb · 19×
הּ
h
verb · 232×
וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
חֶ֖רֶב
chrb
noun · 409×
י
y
verb · 282×
י
y
noun · 752×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
ם
m
verb · 64×
ם
m
verb · 50×
ם
m
verb · 144×
מָלְאָ֥ה
ml'h
verb · 248×
שָּׁלָ֖ל
shll
noun · 74×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

24. 'And he said they often appeared as the Lord revealed the devil to Job, saying, His eyes are as the morning star. From his mouth proceed burning lamps and hearths of fire are cast forth. The smoke of a furnace blazing with the fire of coals proceeds from his nostrils. His breath is coals and from his mouth issues flame. When the prince of the demons appears in this wise, th…

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 19:2 — Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
  • 1Kgs 20:3 — Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.
  • 1Thess 5:3 — For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
  • Dan 4:31 — While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.
  • Deut 11:4 — And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them
  • Exod 14:5 — And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go fro
  • Exod 14:9 — But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.
  • Ezek 21:3 — And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
  • Gen 49:27 — Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
  • Hab 3:14 — Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
  • Isa 33:10 — Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
  • Isa 53:12 — Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he
  • Jer 46:17 — They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
  • Judg 5:30 — Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both si
  • Judg 5:30 — Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both si
  • Luke 11:22 — But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
  • Prov 16:19 — Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
  • Prov 27:22 — Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
  • Ps 10:3 — For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
  • Ps 17:10 — They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
  • Ps 76:10 — Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
  • Ps 124:6 — Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.