KJV King James Version
And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
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Judges 8:7
And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“Very well,” Gideon replied, “when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness!”
WEB World English Bible
Gideon said, “Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”
ASV American Standard Version
And Gideon said, Therefore when Jehovah hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Gideon saith, ‘Therefore—in Jehovah’s giving Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand—I have threshed your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, and with the threshing instruments.’
Surrounding context — Judges 8
4 And Gideon came to Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and the three hundred men that [were] with him, faint, yet pursuing [them].
5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they [be] faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
6 And the princes of Succoth said, [Are] the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?
7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
8 And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered [him].
9 And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.
10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna [were] in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand [men], all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
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וַיֹּ֣אמֶרH559 · a.marto sayגִּדְע֔וֹןH1439 · gid.onGideonלָכֵ֗ןH3651 · kenrightבְּתֵ֧תH5414 · na.tanto give: giveיְהוָ֛הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]זֶ֥בַחH2078 · ze.vachZebahוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]צַלְמֻנָּ֖עH6759 · tsal.mun.naZalmunnaבְּיָדִ֑יH3027 · yadhandוְדַשְׁתִּי֙H1758 · dushto treadאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]בְּשַׂרְכֶ֔םH1320 · ba.sarfleshאֶת־H854 · etwithקוֹצֵ֥יH6975 · qotsthornהַמִּדְבָּ֖רH4057 · mid.barmouthוְאֶת־H854 · etwithהַֽבַּרְקֳנִֽים׃H1303 · bar.qanbriar
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