Jeremiah 46:4

Literal Standard Version

Gird the horses, and go up, you horsemen, || And station yourselves with helmets, || Polish the javelins, put on the coats of mail.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Harness the horses;mount the steeds;take your positions with helmets on!Polish the lances;put on armor!

Hebrew Names Version
Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

King James Version
Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.

English Standard Version
Harness the horses; mount, O horsemen! Take your stations with your helmets, polish your spears, put on your armor!

New American Standard Bible
"Harness the horses, And mount the steeds, Take your stand with helmets on! Polish the spears, Put on the coats of armor!

New Century Version
Harness the horses and get on them! Go to your places for battle and put on your helmets! Polish your spears. Put on your armor!

Amplified Bible
"Harness the horses, And mount, you riders! Take your stand with your helmets! Polish the spears, Put on the coats of mail!

World English Bible
Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Make readie the horses, and let the horsemen get vp, and stande vp with your sallets, fourbish the speares, and put on the brigandines.

Legacy Standard Bible
Harness the horses,And mount the steeds,And take your stand with helmets on!Polish the spears,Put on the scale‑armor!

Berean Standard Bible
Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!

Contemporary English Version
saddle your horses, and polish your spears. Put on your helmets and armor, then take your positions.

Complete Jewish Bible
Harness the horses! Riders, mount! [Troops,] fall in! Helmets in place! Polish the spears! Coats of mail on!

Darby Translation
Harness the horses, and mount ye horsemen, and stand forth with helmets; polish the spears, put on the coats of mail!

Easy-to-Read Version
Get the horses ready. Soldiers, get on your horses. Go to your places for battle. Put your helmets on. Sharpen your spears. Put your armor on.

George Lamsa Translation
Harness the horses and mount, O you horsemen; put on your helmets; polish the spears and wear the breastplates.

Good News Translation
Harness your horses and mount them! Fall in line and put on your helmets! Sharpen your spears! Put on your armor!'

Lexham English Bible
Harness the horses and mount the steeds! And take your stand with helmets! Polish the spears! Put on the body armor!

Literal Translation
Harness the horses, and mount, O horsemen. Yea, stand with helmets, polish the spears, put on coats of mail.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee harnesse youre horses, & set youre selues vpon them: Ye set youre salettes fast on, ye bringe forth speares, ye scoure youre sweardes, & put on youre brest plates.

American Standard Version
Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

Bible in Basic English
Make the horses ready, and get up, you horsemen, and take your places with your head-dresses; make the spears sharp and put on the breastplates.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Harness the horses, and mount, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

King James Version (1611)
Harnesse the horses, and get vp ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets, furbish the speares, and put on the brigandines.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Harnesse your horses, and set your selues vpon them, set your sallets fast on, bryng foorth speares, scoure your swordes, and put on your brestplates.

English Revised Version
Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ioyne ye horsis, and stie, ye knyytis; stonde ye in helmes, polische ye speris, clothe ye you in haburiowns.

Update Bible Version
Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

Webster's Bible Translation
Harness the horses; and mount, ye horsemen, and stand forth with [your] helmets; furbish the spears, [and] put on the coats of mail.

New English Translation
Harness the horses to the chariots! Mount your horses! Put on your helmets and take your positions! Sharpen your spears! Put on your armor!

New King James Version
Harness the horses, And mount up, you horsemen! Stand forth with your helmets, Polish the spears, Put on the armor!

New Living Translation
Harness the horses, and mount the stallions. Take your positions. Put on your helmets. Sharpen your spears, and prepare your armor.

New Life Bible
Get the horses ready and get on them! Take your places with your head-coverings on! Make your spears shine, and put on your heavy battle-clothes!

New Revised Standard
Harness the horses; mount the steeds! Take your stations with your helmets, whet your lances, put on your coats of mail!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Harness the horses, and mount, ye horsemen, Stand forth in helmets, - Polish the lances, put on the coats of mail.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen: stand forth with helmets, furbish the spears, put on coats of mail.

Revised Standard Version
Harness the horses; mount, O horsemen! Take your stations with your helmets, polish your spears, put on your coats of mail!

Young's Literal Translation
Gird the horses, and go up, ye horsemen, And station yourselves with helmets, Polish the javelins, put on the coats of mail.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Harness the horses, And mount the steeds, And take your stand with helmets on! Polish the spears, Put on the scale-armor!

Contextual Overview

¹That which has been the word of YHWH to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations, ²for Egypt, concerning the force of Pharaoh-Necho king of Egypt, that has been by the Euphrates River, in Carchemish, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has struck, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: ³"Set shield and buckler in array, || And draw near to battle. ⁴Gird the horses, and go up, you horsemen, || And station yourselves with helmets, || Polish the javelins, put on the coats of mail.⁵Why have I seen them dismayed [and] turned backward? And their mighty ones are beaten down, || And they have fled [to] a refuge, || And did not turn their face, || Fear [is] all around—a declaration of YHWH. ⁶The swift do not flee, nor do the mighty escape, || Northward, by the side of the Euphrates River, || They have stumbled and fallen. ⁷Who is this? He comes up as a flood, || His waters shake themselves as rivers! ⁸Egypt comes up as a flood, || And the waters shake themselves as rivers. And he says, I go up; I cover the land, I destroy the city and the inhabitants in it. ⁹Go up, you horses; and boast yourselves, you chariots, || And go forth, you mighty, || Cush and Phut handling the shield, || And Lud handling—treading the bow. ¹⁰And that day [is] to Lord YHWH of Hosts || A day of vengeance, || To be avenged of His adversaries, || And the sword has devoured, and been satisfied, || And it has been watered from their blood, || For a sacrifice [is] to Lord YHWH of Hosts, || In the land of the north, by the Euphrates River.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

furbish: Ezekiel 21:9-11, Ezekiel 21:28

brigandines: Jeremiah 51:3

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 46:14 - Stand Jeremiah 51:11 - Make Ezekiel 21:10 - it is furbished Joel 3:9 - wake Nahum 3:14 - fortify

Cross-References

Genesis 28:15
And behold, I [am] with you, and have kept you wherever you go, and have caused you to return to this ground; for I do not leave you until I have surely done that which I have spoken to you."

Genesis 46:1
And Israel journeys, and all that he has, and comes to Beer-Sheba, and sacrifices sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac;

Genesis 46:2
and God speaks to Israel in visions of the night and says, "Jacob, Jacob"; and he says, "Here I [am]."

Genesis 46:14
And sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

Genesis 46:16
And sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

Genesis 46:24
And sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

Genesis 46:25
These [are] sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel; and she bears these to Jacob—all the persons [are] seven.

Genesis 48:21
And Israel says to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, and God has been with you, and has brought you back to the land of your fathers;

Genesis 50:1
And Joseph falls on his father's face, and weeps over him, and kisses him;

Genesis 50:5
My father caused me to swear, saying, Behold, I am dying; in my burying-place which I have prepared for myself in the land of Canaan, there you bury me; and now, please let me go up and bury my father, then I return";

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Harness the horses,.... Put on their bridles and saddles and gird them: or, "bind the horses" r; that is, to the chariots; put them to, as we commonly express it: Egypt abounded in horses, and so no doubt brought a large cavalry, and a multitude of chariots, into the field of battle:

and get up, ye horsemen; upon the horses, or into the chariots, and so be ready to receive the enemy, or to attack him:

and stand forth with [your] helmets; present themselves on horseback, or in their chariots, with their helmets on their heads, to cover them in the day of battle:

furbish the spears; that they may be sharp and piercing, and look bright and glittering, and strike terror in the enemy:

[and] put on the brigandines; coats of mail, to cover the whole body, which were made of iron, consisting of rings, as Kimchi observes.

r אסרו הסוסים "ligate equos", Montanus, Calvin; "alligate", Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

From the infantry the prophet proceeds to the chariots, in which the Egyptians placed great confidence.

Get up, ye horsemen - Or, “mount the steeds.”

Furbish - i. e., polish, sharpen.

Brigandines - In old times brigand meant a soldier, and we still call a division of an army a brigade, and a commander a brigadier, i. e., a brigandier, or captain of brigands. Similarly a brigandine means a soldier’s equipment, and is put here for a coat of mail.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 46:4. Furbish the spears — Cleanse, brighten, and sharpen them; from the Franco-Gallic fourbir, to polish, brighten.

Brigandines. — A coat of mail, especially that which was made scale fashion; one plate overlapping the other, like the scales of fish.