2 Chronicles 25:8 — Compare Translations

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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

but if thou art going -- do [it], be strong for battle, God doth cause thee to stumble before an enemy, for there is power in God to help, and to cause to stumble.`

English ASV

But if thou wilt go, do valiantly, be strong for the battle: God will cast thee down before the enemy; for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

English Amplified

For if you go [in spite of warning], no matter how strong you are for battle, God will cast you down before the enemy, for God has power to help and to cast down.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

For if you go [in spite of warning], no matter how strong you are for battle, God will cast you down before the enemy, for God has power to help and to cast down.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will make you stumble before the enemy, for God has power to help and power to overthrow.”

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

But if you go with them, do it! Be strong for battle! But God will make you stumble before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to make one stumble.”

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

But if thou wilt go, do [it]; be strong for the battle: God will make thee fall before the enemy, for there is with God power to help and to cast down.

English EASY 2024

The Lord will allow your enemies to win against you, even if you fight very well. God has the power to help you, but he can also cause your enemies to win against you.’

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

Maybe you will make yourself strong and ready for war, but God can help you win or help you lose."

But go, act, be strong for the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy? For God has power to help or to cast down."

English GNT (Good News Translation)

You may think that they will make you stronger in battle, but it is God who has the power to give victory or defeat, and he will let your enemies defeat you.”

English God's Word - GW 1995

If you go into battle with them, no matter how courageous you are, God will use the enemy to defeat you, because God has the power to help you or to defeat you."

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

But if you go [with them], do it! Be strong for battle! [But] God will make you stumble before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to make one stumble.

English KJV 1611

But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

English LSB

But if you do go, do it, be strong for the battle; yet God will cause you to stumble before the enemy, for God has power to help and to cause to stumble.”

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

But if you go, do it. Be strong for the battle. Yet God shall make you fall before the enemy, for God has power to help and to bring down.”

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"But if you do go, do it, be strong for the battle; yet God will bring you down before the enemy, for God has power to help and to bring down."

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Instead, go on your own, strongly prepared for the conflict; otherwise the LORD will defeat you in the face of the enemy. It is God who has the power to reinforce or to defeat."

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will defeat you before the enemy. God is capable of helping or defeating.”

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Go and fight bravely in battle if you want to. But God will destroy you right in front of your enemies. God has the power to help you or destroy you."

English NIV

Even if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to overthrow."

English NKJ 1982

But if you go, be gone! Be strong in battle! Even so, God shall make you fall before the enemy; for God has power to help and to overthrow.”

English NLT

If you let them go with your troops into battle, you will be defeated no matter how well you fight. God will overthrow you, for he has the power to help or to frustrate."

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Rather, go by yourself and act; be strong in battle, or God will fling you down before the enemy; for God has power to help or to overthrow."

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

But if you suppose that in this way you will be strong for war, God will cast you down before the enemy; for God has power to help or to cast down.”

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Instead, you go by yourself and be strong. God and God only has the power to help or hurt your cause.“

English Tyndale 1537

Or else if thou needs wilt, then go and do it, and make thyself strong to battle: and thou shalt see, that God shall make thee fall before thine enemies. For God hath power to help or to cast down.