Catholic Public Domain Version
"They are doing the contrary, and they are striving to cast us from the possession which you delivered to us. "
— 2 Chronicles 20:11, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.”
“behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit. ”
“behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.”
“Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us!”
“Do the contrary, and endeavour to cast us out of the possession which thou hast delivered to us.”
“See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.”
“Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.”
And they lived in it. And they built a Sanctuary to your name in it, saying:
‘If evils will have fallen upon us, the sword of judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand in your sight before this house, in which your name is invoked, and we will cry out to you in our tribulations. And you will heed us and accomplish our salvation.’
Now therefore, behold the sons of Ammon, and of Moab, and mount Seir, through whose lands you did not permit Israel to cross when they were departing from Egypt. Instead, they turned aside from them, and they did not put them to death.
They are doing the contrary, and they are striving to cast us from the possession which you delivered to us.
Therefore, will you, our God, not judge them? Certainly, in us there is not enough strength so that we would be able to withstand this multitude, which rushes against us. But although we do not know what we ought to do, we have this alone remaining, that we direct our eyes to you.”
Truly, all of Judah was standing before the Lord with their little ones and wives and children.
But there was Jahaziel, the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite from the sons of Asaph, upon whom the Spirit of the Lord went, in the midst of the crowd.