Other translations
New Catholic Bible
It was due to such conduct that our ancestors were handed over to the sword and pillage and were utterly destroyed by our enemies.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
That was why our ancestors were handed over to the sword and to pillage, and so they suffered a great catastrophe before our enemies.
Good News Translation®
That is why God let their enemies kill them and take everything they had. It was a great defeat!
Wycliffe Bible
for which great trespass they were given to their enemies into sword, and into raven, and into confusion; but we know not another God besides him.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
and that was why our fathers were handed over to the sword, and to be plundered, and so they suffered a great catastrophe before our enemies.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
That was why our ancestors were handed over to the sword and to pillage, and so they suffered a great catastrophe before our enemies.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
That was why our ancestors were handed over to the sword and to pillage, and so they suffered a great catastrophe before our enemies.
Common English Bible © 2011
This is the reason why our ancestors were handed over to the sword and to plunder, and they suffered greatly in the presence of our enemies.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
It was for such conduct that our ancestors were handed over to the sword and to pillage, and fell with great destruction before our enemies.
Revised Standard Version
and that was why our fathers were handed over to the sword, and to be plundered, and so they suffered a great catastrophe before our enemies.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
That was why our ancestors were handed over to the sword and to pillage, and so they suffered a great catastrophe before our enemies.