1 Samuel 30:4

Modern

So David and the troops with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no strength left to weep.

Traditional

Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

Literal

And David and the people who were with him lifted up their voices and wept, until that there was not in them power to weep.

Latin

…levaverunt David et populus qui erat cum eo voces suas, et planxerunt donec deficerent in eis lacrimæ.

Hebrew

English

So David and the troops with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no strength left to weep.

Theme notes and profiles

1 Samuel 11:4
When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.
Numbers 14:1
Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
Numbers 14:39
And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.
1 Samuel 4:13
When he arrived, there was Eli, sitting on his chair beside the road and watching, because his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the whole city cried out.
Genesis 37:33–35
His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”
Judges 21:2
So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.
Judges 2:4
When the angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
Ezra 10:1
While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.

David: Anointed king of Israel, ancestor of Jesus Christ