2 Samuel 19:7

WEB

⁷Now therefore arise, go out and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by the LORD, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”

KJV

⁷Now therefore arise^[+], go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.

BSB

⁷Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”

FBV

⁷So get up, go out, and thank your men. I swear by the Lord that if you don't, you won't have a man left by tonight. That will be far worse for you than all the disasters you've had from your youth until now.”

Extra References

Proverbs 14:28

²⁸In the multitude of people is the king’s glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

Genesis 34:3

³His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

Proverbs 19:15

¹⁵Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Psalms 129:1-2

¹Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say: ²many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

Psalms 71:4-6

⁴Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. ⁵For you are my hope, Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth. ⁶I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.

Psalms 71:9-11

⁹Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails. ¹⁰For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together, ¹¹saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”

Isaiah 40:1

¹“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

Psalms 71:18-20

¹⁸Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come. ¹⁹God, your righteousness also reaches to the heavens. You have done great things. God, who is like you? ²⁰You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

Hosea 2:14

¹⁴“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.