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Good News Translation

Jeremiah 5:16

Their archers are mighty soldiers who kill without mercy.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Idolatry;   War;   The Topic Concordance - Israel/jews;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Arrows;   Babylon;   Judgments;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Quiver;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Their quiver is like an open grave;they are all warriors.
Hebrew Names Version
Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.
King James Version
Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
English Standard Version
Their quiver is like an open tomb; they are all mighty warriors.
New American Standard Bible
"Their quiver is like an open grave, All of them are warriors.
New Century Version
Their arrows bring death. All their people are strong warriors.
Amplified Bible
"Their quiver is [filled with the dead] like an open grave; They are all mighty men [heroes of their nation].
World English Bible
Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Whose quiuer is as an open sepulchre: they are all very strong.
Legacy Standard Bible
Their quiver is like an open grave;All of them are mighty men.
Berean Standard Bible
Their quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty warriors.
Contemporary English Version
All of them are warriors, and their arrows bring death.
Complete Jewish Bible
Their quiver is like an open grave, they are all mighty warriors.
Darby Translation
Their quiver is as an open sepulchre; they are all mighty men.
Easy-to-Read Version
Their arrow bags are like open graves. All their men are strong soldiers.
George Lamsa Translation
Their quiver is like an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
Lexham English Bible
Their quiver is like an open tomb, all of them are warriors.
Literal Translation
Their quiver is as an open grave; they are all mighty men.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Their arowes are sodane death, yee they them selues be very giauntes.
American Standard Version
Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
Bible in Basic English
Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
King James Version (1611)
Their quiuer is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Their arrowes are sodayne death, yea they them selues be very giauntes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They are all mighty men:
English Revised Version
Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The arowe caas therof is as an opyn sepulcre; alle ben stronge men.
Update Bible Version
Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.
Webster's Bible Translation
Their quiver [is] as an open sepulcher, they [are] all mighty men.
New English Translation
All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.
New King James Version
Their quiver is like an open tomb; They are all mighty men.
New Living Translation
Their weapons are deadly; their warriors are mighty.
New Life Bible
Their arrow-holder is like an open grave. All of them are powerful men.
New Revised Standard
Their quiver is like an open tomb; all of them are mighty warriors.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Its quiver, is like an open sepulchre, - They all, are heroes:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant.
Revised Standard Version
Their quiver is like an open tomb, they are all mighty men.
Young's Literal Translation
Its quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, All of them -- mighty ones.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Their quiver is like an open grave, All of them are mighty men.

Contextual Overview

10 I will send enemies to cut down my people's vineyards, but not to destroy them completely. I will tell them to strip away the branches, because those branches are not mine. 11 The people of Israel and Judah have betrayed me completely. I, the Lord , have spoken." 12 The Lord 's people have denied him and have said, "He won't really do anything. We won't have hard times; we won't have war or famine." 13They have said that the prophets are nothing but windbags and that they have no message from the Lord . The Lord God Almighty said to me, "Jeremiah, because these people have said such things, I will make my words like a fire in your mouth. The people will be like wood, and the fire will burn them up." 15 People of Israel, the Lord is bringing a nation from far away to attack you. It is a strong and ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know. 16 Their archers are mighty soldiers who kill without mercy. 17 They will devour your crops and your food; they will kill your sons and your daughters. They will slaughter your flocks and your herds and destroy your vines and fig trees. The fortified cities in which you trust will be destroyed by their army. 18 The Lord says, "Yet even in those days I will not completely destroy my people. 19 When they ask why I did all these things, tell them, Jeremiah, that just as they turned away from me and served foreign gods in their own land, so they will serve strangers in a land that is not theirs."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 5:9, Isaiah 5:28, Romans 3:13

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:21 - Separate Jeremiah 6:23 - They shall Jeremiah 25:9 - I Micah 7:2 - they all

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Their quiver is an open sepulchre,.... The Chaldeans used bows and arrows in fighting; and the quiver is a case for arrows; and the phrase denotes, that their arrows would do great execution, and be very mortal; so that a quiver of them would be as devouring as an open grave, into which many dead are cast. The Septuagint and Arabic versions have not this clause; and the Syriac version renders it, "whose throats are as open sepulchres"; see Romans 3:13:

they are all mighty men; strong in body, of bold and courageous spirits, expert in war, and ever victorious; so that there was no hope of being delivered out of their hands.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their quiver - See Jeremiah 4:29, note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 5:16. Their quiver is an open sepulchre — They are such exact archers as never to miss their mark; every arrow is sure to slay one man.


 
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