Isaiæ 6:23

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Sagittam et scutum arripiet:
crudelis est et non miserebitur.
Vox ejus quasi mare sonabit:
et super equos ascendent,
præparati quasi vir ad prælium
adversum te, filia Sion.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Sagittam et scutum arripiet : crudelis est et non miserebitur : vox ejus quasi mare sonabit : et super equos ascendent, pr�parati quasi vir ad pr�lium adversum te, filia Sion.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
arcum et acinacem arripiet, crudelis est et non miserebitur; vox eorum quasi mare sonabit, et super equos ascendent, praeparati quasi vir ad proelium adversum te, filia Sion".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

They shall: Jeremiah 5:16, Jeremiah 50:42, Isaiah 13:18, Ezekiel 23:22-25, Habakkuk 1:6-10

cruel: Jeremiah 30:14, Isaiah 13:18, Isaiah 19:4

their: Jeremiah 4:13, Isaiah 5:26-30, Luke 21:25, Luke 21:26

Reciprocal: Isaiah 5:30 - like Isaiah 13:9 - cruel Isaiah 17:12 - make a noise Jeremiah 4:31 - the voice Jeremiah 8:16 - at the Jeremiah 30:5 - a voice Jeremiah 50:41 - General Ezekiel 21:31 - and skilful Ezekiel 26:3 - as the sea Ezekiel 26:7 - with horses

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They shall lay hold on bow and spear,.... That is, everyone of them should be furnished with both these pieces of armour, that they might be able to fight near and afar off; they had bows to shoot arrows at a distance, and spears to strike with when near. The Targum renders it bows and shields. "They are cruel, and have no mercy"; this is said, to strike terror into the hearts of the hardened Jews:

their voice roareth like the sea; the waves of it, which is terrible,

Luke 21:25:

and they ride upon horses; which still made them more formidable, as well as suggests that their march would be quick and speedy, and they would soon be with them:

set in array as men for war; prepared with all sorts of armour for battle: or, "as a man" a; as one man, denoting their conjunction, ardour, and unanimity; being not only well armed without, but inwardly, resolutely bent, as one man, to engage in battle, and conquer or die; see Judges 20:8,

against thee, O daughter of Zion; the design being against her, and all the preparation made on her account; which had a very dreadful appearance, and threatened with ruin, and therefore filled her with terror and distress, as follows.

a כאיש "tanquam vir", Pagninus; "ut vir", Schmidt; "quam unus vir", Grotius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Spear - Properly, a javelin for hurling at the enemy (see 1 Samuel 17:6 note): an ordinary weapon of the Babylonians.

Cruel - ruthless, inhuman. In the Assyrian monuments warriors put the vanquished to death; rows of impaled victims hang round the walls of the besieged towns; and men collect in heaps hands cut from the vanquished.

Horses, set in array - A full stop should be put after horses. It - the whole army, and not the cavalry only - is “set in array.”

As men for war against thee - Rather, as a warrior for battle “against thee.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 6:23. They shall lay hold on bow and spear — Still pointing out the Chaldeans: or according to Dahler, the Scythians, who had before their invasion of Palestine overrun many parts of Asia, and had spread consternation wherever their name was heard.