Jeremiah 46:4

THE MESSAGE

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

¹ God 's Messages through the prophet Jeremiah regarding the godless nations. ²The Message to Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt at the time it was defeated by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon while camped at Carchemish on the Euphrates River in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah: "‘Present arms! March to the front! Harness the horses! Up in the saddles! Battle formation! Helmets on, spears sharpened, armor in place!' But what's this I see? They're scared out of their wits! They break ranks and run for cover. Their soldiers panic. They run this way and that, stampeding blindly. It's total chaos, total confusion, danger everywhere!" God 's Decree. ⁶ "The swiftest runners won't get away, the strongest soldiers won't escape. In the north country, along the River Euphrates, they'll stagger, stumble, and fall. ⁷"Who is this like the Nile in flood? like its streams torrential? Why, it's Egypt like the Nile in flood, like its streams torrential, Saying, ‘I'll take over the world. I'll wipe out cities and peoples.' Run, horses! Roll, chariots! Advance, soldiers from Cush and Put with your shields, Soldiers from Lud, experts with bow and arrow. ¹⁰ "But it's not your day. It's the Master's, me, God -of-the-Angel-Armies— the day when I have it out with my enemies, The day when Sword puts an end to my enemies, when Sword exacts vengeance. I, the Master, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, will pile them on an altar—a huge sacrifice!— In the great north country, along the mighty Euphrates. ¹¹"Oh, virgin Daughter Egypt, climb into the mountains of Gilead, get healing balm. You will vainly collect medicines, for nothing will be able to cure what ails you. The whole world will hear your anguished cries. Your wails fill the earth, As soldier falls against soldier and they all go down in a heap."

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 46:1
So Israel set out on the journey with everything he owned. He arrived at Beersheba and worshiped, offering sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Genesis 46:2
God spoke to Israel in a vision that night: "Jacob! Jacob!" "Yes?" he said. "I'm listening."

Genesis 46:14
Zebulun's sons: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

Genesis 46:16
Gad's sons: Zephon, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

Genesis 46:24
Naphtali's sons: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

Genesis 46:25
These are the children born to Jacob through Bilhah, the maid Laban had given to his daughter Rachel—seven.

Genesis 48:21
Israel then said to Joseph, "I'm about to die. God be with you and give you safe passage back to the land of your fathers. As for me, I'm presenting you, as the first among your brothers, the ridge of land I took from Amorites with my sword and bow."

Genesis 50:1
Joseph threw himself on his father, wept over him, and kissed him.

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.