Psalm 144:14 {143:14}
Good News Translation
May our cattle reproduce plentifully without miscarriage or loss. May there be no cries of distress in our streets.

New Revised Standard Version
and may our cattle be heavy with young. May there be no breach in the walls, no exile, and no cry of distress in our streets.

Contemporary English Version
and every cow have calves. Don't let our city be captured or any of us be taken away, and don't let cries of sorrow be heard in our streets.

New American Bible
May there be no breach in the walls, no exile, no outcry in our streets.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.

strong to labour.

no breaking in

Deuteronomy 28:7,25 The Lord shall cause thy enemies, that rise up against thee, to fall down before thy face: one way shall they come out against thee, and seven ways shall they flee before thee. . . .

Judges 5:8 The Lord chose new wars, and he himself overthrew the gates of the enemies: a shield and spear was not seen among forty thousand of Israel.

Judges 6:3,6 And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the rest of the eastern nations, came up: . . .

1 Samuel 13:17-23 And there went out of the camp of the Philistines three companies to plunder. One company went towards the way of Ephra to the land of Sual; . . .

Jeremiah 13:17-19 But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive. . . .

Jeremiah 14:18 If I go forth into the fields, behold the slain with the sword: and if I enter into the city, behold them that are consumed with famine. The prophet also and the priest are gone into a land which they knew not.

Lamentations 1:4-6 Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast: all her gates are broken down; her priests sigh; her virgins are in affliction; and she is oppressed with bitterness. . . .

Zechariah 8:3-5 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am returned to Sion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, The sanctified mountain. . . .

Context
Blessed Be the LORD, My Rock
13Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth: 14Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.15They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.…
Cross References
2 Kings 25:10
And all the army of the Chaldees, which was with the commander of the troops, broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

2 Kings 25:11
And Nabuzardan, the commander of the army, carried away the rest of the people, that remained in the city, and the fugitives, that had gone over to the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the common people.

Proverbs 14:4
Where there are no oxen, the crib is empty: but where there is much corn, there the strength of the ox is manifest.

Isaiah 24:11
There shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth is forsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away.

Jeremiah 14:2
Judea hath mourned, and the gates thereof are fallen, and are become obscure on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

Amos 5:3
For thus saith the Lord God: The city, out of which came forth a thousand, there shall be left in it a hundred: and out of which there came a hundred, there shall be left in it ten, in the house of Israel.

Psalm 144:13
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