Leviticus 26:37
Good News Translation
You will stumble over one another when no one is chasing you, and you will be unable to fight against any enemy.

New Revised Standard Version
They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though no one pursues; and you shall have no power to stand against your enemies.

New American Bible
stumbling over one another as if to escape a sword, while no one is after them—so helpless will you be to take a stand against your foes!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall every one fall upon their brethren as fleeing from wars: none of you shall dare to resist your enemies.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they shall every one fall upon their brethren as fleeing from wars: none of you shall dare to resist your enemies.

they shall

Judges 7:22 And the three hundred men nevertheless persisted sounding the trumpets. And the Lord sent the sword into all the camp, and they killed one another,

1 Samuel 14:15,16 And there was a miracle in the camp, in the fields: and all the people of their garrison, who had gone out to plunder, were amazed, and the earth trembled: and it happened as a miracle from God. . . .

Isaiah 10:4 That you be not bowed down under the bond, and fall with the slain? In all these things his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 37:10 Now when the army of the Chaldeans was gone away from Jerusalem, because of Pharao's army,

and ye shall

Numbers 14:42 Go not up, for the Lord is not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.

Joshua 7:12,13 Neither can Israel stand before his enemies, but he shall flee from them: because he is defiled with the anathema. I will be no more with you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this wickedness. . . .

Judges 2:14 And the Lord being angry against Israel, delivered them into the hands of plunderers: who took them and sold them to their enemies, that dwelt round about: neither could they stand against their enemies:

Context
Punishments for Disobedience
36And as to them that shall remain of you I will send fear in their hearts in the countries of their enemies. The sound of a flying leaf shall terrify them: and they shall flee as it were from the sword. They shall fall, when no man pursueth them. 37And they shall every one fall upon their brethren as fleeing from wars: none of you shall dare to resist your enemies.38You shall perish among the Gentiles: and an enemy's land shall consume you.…
Cross References
Leviticus 26:17
I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before your enemies: and shall be made subject to them that hate you. You shall flee when no man pursueth you.

Jeremiah 6:21
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring destruction upon this people, by which fathers and sons together shall fall, neighbour and kinsman shall perish.

Jeremiah 46:16
He hath multiplied them that fall, and one hath fallen upon another, and they shall say: Arise, and let us return to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the sword of the dove.

Nahum 3:3
And of the shining sword, and of the glittering spear, and of a multitude slain, and of a grievous destruction: and there is no end of carcasses, and they shall fall down on their dead bodies.

Leviticus 26:36
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