Isaiah 21:15
New Revised Standard Version
For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the stress of battle.

Contemporary English Version
They are worn out and weary from being chased by enemies with swords and arrows.

New American Bible
For they have fled from the sword, from the drawn sword; From the taut bow, from the thick of battle.

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.

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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.

from the swords.

Job 6:19,20 Consider the paths of Thema, the ways of Saba, and wait a little while. . . .

Context
A Prophecy Against Arabia
14Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth. 15For 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.16For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away.…
Cross References
Isaiah 13:14
And they shall be as a doe fleeing away, and as a sheep: and there shall be none to gather them together: every man shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.

Isaiah 13:15
Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every one that shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword.

Isaiah 17:13
Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a tempest.

Isaiah 22:3
All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all that were found, are bound together, they are fled far off.

Isaiah 31:8
And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword not of a man, and the sword not of a man shall devour him, and he shall flee not at the face of the sword, and his young men shall be tributaries.

Isaiah 33:3
At the voice of the angel the people fled, and at the lifting up thyself the nations are scattered.

Isaiah 21:14
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