Jeremiah 50:36

The NET Bible®

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!

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A sword is against the diviners,and they will act foolishly.A sword is against her heroic warriors,and they will be terrified.

Hebrew Names Version
A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

King James Version
A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

English Standard Version
A sword against the diviners, that they may become fools! A sword against her warriors, that they may be destroyed!

New American Standard Bible
"A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become fools! A sword against her warriors, and they will be shattered!

New Century Version
Let a sword kill her false prophets, and they will become fools. Let a sword kill her warriors, and they will be full of terror.

Amplified Bible
"A sword against the oracle priests (the babbling liars), and they will become fools! A sword against her mighty warriors, and they will be shattered and destroyed!

World English Bible
A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

Geneva Bible (1587)
A sworde is vpon the soothsaiers, and they shall dote: a sword is vpon her strong men, & they shalbe afraide.

Legacy Standard Bible
A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become fools!A sword against her mighty men, and they will be shattered!

Berean Standard Bible
A sword is against her diviners, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.

Contemporary English Version
This war will prove that your prophets are liars and fools. And it will frighten your warriors.

Complete Jewish Bible
A sword hangs over the lying diviners; they will become fools. A sword hangs over her warriors; they will be disgraced.

Darby Translation
the sword is upon the liars, and they shall become fools; the sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed;

Easy-to-Read Version
Sword, kill the priests of Babylon. They will be like fools. Sword, kill the soldiers of Babylon. They will be full of fear.

George Lamsa Translation
A sword is upon her soothsayers, and they shall be dismayed; a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be defeated.

Good News Translation
Death to its lying prophets— what fools they are! Death to its soldiers— how terrified they are!

Lexham English Bible
A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become foolish. A sword against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.

Literal Translation
A sword is on the liars, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be broken.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The swearde vpon their soythsayers, (as for those, they shall become fooles.) The swearde vpo their worthies, so that they shal stonde in feare:

American Standard Version
A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

Bible in Basic English
A sword is on the men of pride, and they will become foolish: a sword is on her men of war, and they will be broken.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

King James Version (1611)
A sword is vpon the lyers, and they shall dote: a sword is vpon her mighty men, and they shalbe dismayed.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The sworde vpon their soothsayers, as for those they shall become fooles: the sworde vpon their worthies, so that they shall stande in feare.

English Revised Version
A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A swerd to the false dyuynours therof, that schulen be foolis; a swerd to the stronge men therof, that schulen drede.

Update Bible Version
A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

Webster's Bible Translation
A sword [is] upon the liars; and they shall be sottish: a sword [is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

New King James Version
A sword is against the soothsayers, and they will be fools. A sword is against her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.

New Living Translation
The sword will strike her wise counselors, and they will become fools. The sword will strike her mightiest warriors, and panic will seize them.

New Life Bible
A sword is against her religious leaders who are false and lie. They will become fools! A sword is against her strong men, and they will be filled with fear!

New Revised Standard
A sword against the diviners, so that they may become fools! A sword against her warriors, so that they may be destroyed!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A sword, is against the praters, And they shall be shewn to be foolish, A sword, is against her heroes And they shall be dismayed:

Douay-Rheims Bible
A sword upon her diviners, and they shall be foolish: a sword upon her valiant ones, and they shall be dismayed.

Revised Standard Version
A sword upon the diviners, that they may become fools! A sword upon her warriors, that they may be destroyed!

Young's Literal Translation
A sword [is] on the princes, And they have become foolish; A sword [is] on her mighty ones, And they have been broken down;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become fools! A sword against her mighty men, and they will be shattered!

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

upon the liars: or, upon the chief stays, Heb. bars, Jeremiah 48:30, Isaiah 43:14, *marg. Isaiah 44:25, 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11, 1 Timothy 4:2, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15

dote: 2 Samuel 15:31, 2 Samuel 17:14, 2 Chronicles 25:16, Isaiah 47:10-15, 1 Timothy 6:4

her mighty: Jeremiah 50:30, Jeremiah 49:22, Jeremiah 51:23, Jeremiah 51:30, Jeremiah 51:32, Nahum 2:8, Nahum 3:7, Nahum 3:13, Nahum 3:17, Nahum 3:18

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 19:26 - of small power Isaiah 16:6 - but Jeremiah 49:37 - to be Jeremiah 51:29 - the land Jeremiah 51:56 - her mighty Amos 1:5 - break Obadiah 1:9 - thy

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A sword [is] upon the liars,.... Some render it "bars" m, as the word sometimes signifies; and interpret it of great men, who are the strength and security of cities and commonwealths; but these are mentioned both before and after. The Targum renders it "diviners"; and so Jarchi and Kimchi interpret it n; of which there were many among the Chaldeans, who were a lying set of men, who imposed upon and deceived the people; these with their divinations and soothsayings could not save the land, nor themselves, from the devouring sword; nay, their sorceries and divinations were the cause of the ruin of it; see

Isaiah 47:9;

and they shall dote; or, that they may "become foolish" o; be infatuated, and act a mad part, and be at their wits' end; not knowing what course to take for their own safety, and much less be able to give direction and advice to others:

a sword [is] upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed; the soldiers and their officers, the most valiant and courageous of them; these would be in the utmost fright and consternation at the approach of the enemy; especially when they perceived the city taken, and the carnage made of the king and his nobles.

m הבדים "vectes"; so some in Gataker. n "Divinos", V. L. Vatablus, Tigurine version, Calvin, Pagninus; so R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 84. o ונאלו "stultescant", Schmidt; "ut stulte agant", Piscator; "et insanient", Pagninus, Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Liars - Soothsayers, fortune-tellers.