Jeremiah 48:14 “How can you say, ‘We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle’?”

Jeremiah 48:14

How can you say, ‘We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle’?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?

World English Bible

“How do you say, ‘We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war’?

American Standard Version

How say ye, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war?

Geneva Bible 1599

Howe thinke you thus, We are mightie and strong men of warre?

Darby Translation

How do ye say, We are mighty, and men of valour for the war?

Young's Literal Translation

How do ye say, We [are] mighty, And men of strength for battle?

Bible in Basic English

How say you, We are men of war and strong fighters?

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Cross references

“How”

Jeremiah 8:8 Psalm 11:1 Isaiah 36:4 Isaiah 36:5

Jeremiah 8:8 · BSB

How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?

Psalm 11:1 · BSB

In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!

Isaiah 36:4 · BSB

The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?

Isaiah 36:5 · BSB

You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?

“We”

Psalm 33:16 Isaiah 10:13 Isaiah 10:16 Jeremiah 9:23 Jeremiah 49:16 Ecclesiastes 9:11

Psalm 33:16 · BSB

No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.

Isaiah 10:13 · BSB

For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.

Isaiah 10:16 · BSB

Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.

Jeremiah 9:23 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.

Jeremiah 49:16 · BSB

The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you…

Ecclesiastes 9:11 · BSB

I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happ…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.

15Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

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