Jeremiah 50:35

The NET Bible®

"Destructive forces will come against the Babylonians," says the Lord . "They will come against the people who inhabit Babylonia, against her leaders and her men of wisdom.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A sword is over the Chaldeans—

Hebrew Names Version
A sword is on the Kasdim, says the LORD, and on the inhabitants of Bavel, and on her princes, and on her wise men.

King James Version
A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord , and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

English Standard Version
"A sword against the Chaldeans, declares the Lord , and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and against her officials and her wise men!

New American Standard Bible
"A sword against the Chaldeans," declares the LORD, "And against the inhabitants of Babylon And against her leaders and her wise men!

New Century Version
The Lord says, "Let a sword kill the people living in Babylon and her officers and wise men!

Amplified Bible
"A sword against the Chaldeans," says the LORD, "And against the inhabitants of Babylon And against her princes (officials, civic rulers) and against her wise men (astrologers, religious rulers)!

World English Bible
A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men.

Geneva Bible (1587)
A sworde is vpon the Caldeans, sayeth the Lord, and vpon the inhabitants of Babel, and vpon her princes, and vpon her wise men.

Legacy Standard Bible
A sword against the Chaldeans," declares Yahweh,"And against the inhabitants of BabylonAnd against her officials and her wise men!

Berean Standard Bible
A sword is against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, against those who live in Babylon, and against her officials and wise men.

Contemporary English Version
I have declared war on you, your officials, and advisors.

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai says, "A sword hangs over the Kasdim, and over those who live in Bavel, over her leaders and over her sages.

Darby Translation
The sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith Jehovah, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men;

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord says, "Sword, kill the people living in Babylon. Sword, kill the king's officials and the wise men of Babylon.

George Lamsa Translation
A sword is upon the Chaldeans, says the LORD, and upon all the inhabitants of Babylon and upon her princes and upon her wise men.

Good News Translation
The Lord says, "Death to Babylonia! Death to its people, to its rulers, to its people of wisdom.

Lexham English Bible
A sword against the Chaldeans," declares Yahweh, "and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and against her officials, and against her wise men.

Literal Translation
A sword is on the Chaldeans, states Jehovah, and on those living in Babylon, and on her rulers, and on her wise men.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The swearde shall come vpon the Caldees (saieth the LORDE) vpon them that dwell in Babilon, vpon their prynces, & vpo their wyse me:

American Standard Version
A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith Jehovah, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

Bible in Basic English
A sword is on the Chaldaeans, says the Lord, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers and on her wise men.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

King James Version (1611)
A sword is vpon the Caldeans, saith the Lord, and vpon the inhabitants of Babylon, and vpon her princes, and vpon her wise men.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The sworde shal come vpon the Chaldees saith the Lorde, vpon them that dwell in Babylon, vpon their princes, and vpon their wise men.

English Revised Version
A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A swerd to Caldeis, seith the Lord, and to the dwelleris of Babiloyne, and to the princes, and to the wise men therof.

Update Bible Version
A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men.

Webster's Bible Translation
A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise [men].

New King James Version
"A sword is against the Chaldeans," says the LORD, "Against the inhabitants of Babylon, And against her princes and her wise men.

New Living Translation
"The sword of destruction will strike the Babylonians," says the Lord . "It will strike the people of Babylon— her officials and wise men, too.

New Life Bible
A sword is against the Babylonians," says the Lord, "and against the people of Babylon, and against her leaders and her wise men!

New Revised Standard
A sword against the Chaldeans, says the Lord , and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and against her officials and her sages!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A sword, is over the Chaldeans, Declareth Yahweh, - And against the inhabitants of Babylon, And against her princes, And against her wise men:

Douay-Rheims Bible
A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

Revised Standard Version
"A sword upon the Chalde'ans, says the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes and her wise men!

Young's Literal Translation
A sword [is] for the Chaldeans, An affirmation of Jehovah, And it [is] on the inhabitants of Babylon, And on her heads, and on her wise men;

THE MESSAGE
"It's all-out war in Babylon"— God 's Decree— "total war against people, leaders, and the wise! War to the death on her boasting pretenders, fools one and all! War to the death on her soldiers, cowards to a man! War to the death on her hired killers, gutless wonders! War to the death on her banks—looted! War to the death on her water supply—drained dry! A land of make-believe gods gone crazy—hobgoblins! The place will be haunted with jackals and scorpions, night-owls and vampire bats. No one will ever live there again. The land will reek with the stench of death. It will join Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, the cities I did away with." God 's Decree. "No one will live there again. No one will again draw breath in that land, ever.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"A sword against the Chaldeans," declares the LORD, "And against the inhabitants of Babylon And against her officials and her wise men!

Contextual Overview

³³ The Lord who rules over all says, "The people of Israel are oppressed. So too are the people of Judah. All those who took them captive are holding them prisoners. They refuse to set them free. ³⁴ But the one who will rescue them is strong. He is known as the Lord who rules over all. He will strongly champion their cause. As a result he will bring peace and rest to the earth, but trouble and turmoil to the people who inhabit Babylonia. ³⁵ "Destructive forces will come against the Babylonians," says the Lord . "They will come against the people who inhabit Babylonia, against her leaders and her men of wisdom. ³⁶ Destructive forces will come against her false prophets; they will be shown to be fools! Destructive forces will come against her soldiers; they will be filled with terror! ³⁷ Destructive forces will come against her horses and her chariots. Destructive forces will come against all the foreign troops within her; they will be as frightened as women! Destructive forces will come against her treasures; they will be taken away as plunder! ³⁸ A drought will come upon her land; her rivers and canals will be dried up. All of this will happen because her land is filled with idols. Her people act like madmen because of those idols they fear. ³⁹ Therefore desert creatures and jackals will live there. Ostriches will dwell in it too. But no people will ever live there again. No one will dwell there for all time to come. ⁴⁰ I will destroy Babylonia just like I did Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it," says the Lord . ⁴¹ "Look! An army is about to come from the north. A mighty nation and many kings are stirring into action in faraway parts of the earth. ⁴² Its soldiers are armed with bows and spears. They are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride forth on their horses. Lined up in formation like men going into battle, they are coming against you, fair Babylon!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sword: Jeremiah 47:6, Leviticus 26:25, Isaiah 66:16, Ezekiel 14:2, Hosea 11:6, Zechariah 11:17

upon her princes: Jeremiah 50:27, Jeremiah 50:30, Jeremiah 51:39, Jeremiah 51:57, Isaiah 41:25, Daniel 5:1, Daniel 5:2, Daniel 5:30

her wise men: Jeremiah 8:9, Jeremiah 10:7, Isaiah 19:11-13, Isaiah 29:14, Isaiah 44:25, Isaiah 47:13, Isaiah 47:14, Daniel 5:7, Daniel 5:8

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 20:17 - thou shalt Isaiah 13:15 - General Isaiah 45:1 - to subdue Jeremiah 25:27 - because Jeremiah 50:12 - a wilderness Jeremiah 50:25 - opened Jeremiah 51:47 - her whole Ezekiel 30:4 - the sword

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord,.... Or, "shall be" k or, "O sword, [be thou] on the Chaldeans" l; that is, the sword of the Medes and Persians; those that kill with the sword, as the Targum; in the mystic sense, the Christian princes that shall draw the sword against the antichristian states:

and upon the inhabitants of Babylon; the metropolis of Chaldea; the common people in it, as distinguished from those of high rank and degree following:

and upon her princes; Belshazzar and his nobles, who were slain the night Babylon was taken:

and upon her wise [men]; prime ministers, politicians, and counsellors of state; neither high birth nor great wisdom can secure from the sword of the enemy, when it has a commission from God, as it had here.

k "Erit", Abarbinel; "irruet", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. l חרב על כשדים "gladie, super Chaldaeos, scil. veni, ades", Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Omit “is.” A summons comes from Yahweh, Israel’s Goel, to the sword to fall upon all the elements of Babylon’s greatness. The princes were her rulers at home and her generals in war. The wise men were those upon whose learning she so prided herself (Daniel 1:4 note).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 50:35. A sword — War and its calamities, or any grievous plague; and so in the following verses.