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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
אם-לא ישוב חרבו ילטוש קשתו דרך ויכוננה
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
Am-lA ySHvb KHrbv yltvSH qSHtv drk vykvnnh

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
Deus iudex iustus et fortis comminans tota die

King James Variants
American King James Version   
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
If he turns not, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
Authorized (King James) Version   
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
New King James Version   
If he does not turn back, He will sharpen His sword; He bends His bow and makes it ready.
21st Century King James Version   
If he turn not, He will whet His sword; He hath bent His bow and made it ready.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
If he does not turn, he sharpens his sword, he bends his bow; he is ready.
Darby Bible Translation   
If one turn not, he will sharpen his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready,
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword: he hath bent his bow and made it ready.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;
God's Word   
If a person does not change, God sharpens his sword. By bending his bow, he makes it ready [to shoot].
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
If anyone does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has strung His bow and made it ready.
International Standard Version   
If the ungodly one doesn't repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will string his bow and prepare it.
NET Bible   
If a person does not repent, God sharpens his sword and prepares to shoot his bow.
New American Standard Bible   
If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.
New International Version   
If he does not relent, he will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.
New Living Translation   
If a person does not repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.
Webster's Bible Translation   
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
The World English Bible   
If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.
EasyEnglish Bible   
If they do not change the way that they live, God will prepare to punish them. He will make his sword sharp, and he will put an arrow in his bow.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
If [one] turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it,
New Life Version   
If a man is not sorry for his sins and will not turn from them, God will make His sword sharp. He will string His bow and make it ready.
The Voice Bible   
If the wicked do not turn from their evil deeds, God will sharpen His sword; He will bend His bow, stringing it in readiness.
Living Bible   
Unless they repent, he will sharpen his sword and slay them. He has bent and strung his bow
New Catholic Bible   
God is a just judge, a God who expresses his indignation every day.
Legacy Standard Bible   
If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and prepared it.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
If he does not turn, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow and made it ready.
Christian Standard Bible   
If anyone does not repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has strung his bow and made it ready.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
If a man does not turn and repent, [God] will whet His sword; He has strung and bent His [huge] bow and made it ready [by treading it with His foot].
New Century Version   
If they do not change their lives, God will sharpen his sword; he will string his bow and take aim.
The Message   
Close the book on Evil, God, but publish your mandate for us. You get us ready for life: you probe for our soft spots, you knock off our rough edges. And I’m feeling so fit, so safe: made right, kept right. God in solemn honor does things right, but his nerves are sandpapered raw. Nobody gets by with anything. God is already in action— Sword honed on his whetstone, bow strung, arrow on the string, Lethal weapons in hand, each arrow a flaming missile.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
If he does not relent, the Lord will sharpen his sword. He has bent his bow and will string it.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;
Good News Translation®   
If they do not change their ways, God will sharpen his sword. He bends his bow and makes it ready;
Wycliffe Bible   
If ye be not converted (If they be not turned from their evil ways), he shall flourish his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
Contemporary English Version   
Whenever your enemies refuse to change their ways, you sharpen your sword and string your bow.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;
Common English Bible © 2011   
If someone doesn’t change their ways, God will sharpen his sword, will bend his bow, will string an arrow.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
If a man does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has strung and bent His [mighty] bow and made it ready.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
God is a just judge, powerful and patient, not exercising anger every day.
New American Standard Bible   
If one does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and taken aim.
The Expanded Bible   
If they do not ·change their lives [repent], God will sharpen his sword; he will string his bow and take aim.
Tree of Life Version   
God is a righteous judge, a God who is indignant every day.
Revised Standard Version   
If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;
New International Reader's Version   
If evil people don’t change their ways, God will sharpen his sword. He will get his bow ready to use.
BRG Bible   
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
Complete Jewish Bible   
God is a righteous judge, a God whose anger is present every day.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
If He relent not, He will sharpen His cherev; He hath bent His keshet (bow) and made it ready.
Names of God Bible   
If a person does not change, Elohim sharpens his sword. By bending his bow, he makes it ready to shoot.
Modern English Version   
If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.
Easy-to-Read Version   
If the wicked will not change, then God is ready to punish them. He has prepared his deadly weapons. His sword is sharp. His bow is strung, drawn back, and ready to shoot its flaming arrow.
International Children’s Bible   
If they do not change their lives, God will sharpen his sword. He will string his bow and take aim.
Lexham English Bible   
If he does not repent, he will sharpen his sword. He has bent his bow and he has strung it.
New International Version - UK   
If he does not relent, he will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.