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Jeremiah 50:36

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become fools! A sword against her mighty men, and they will be shattered!
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— A sword [is] upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword [is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— A sword [is] upon the liars; and they shall be sottish: a sword [is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— the sword is upon the liars, and they shall become fools; the sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed;
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— 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:
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— A sword [is] on the princes, And they have become foolish; A sword [is] on her mighty ones, And they have been broken down;
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— A sword upon her diviners, and they shall be foolish: a sword upon her valiant ones, and they shall be dismayed.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— A sworde is vpon the soothsaiers, and they shall dote: a sword is vpon her strong men, ? they shalbe afraide.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— A sword [is] vpon the lyers, and they shall dote: a sword [is] vpon her mighty men, and they shalbe dismayed.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— A sword is upon her soothsayers, and they shall be dismayed; a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be defeated.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— a sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened: a sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots:
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— A sword [is] upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword [is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
A sword 2719
{2719} Prime
חֶרֶב
chereb
{kheh'-reb}
From H2717; drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement.
[is] upon x413
(0413) Complement
אֵל
'el
{ale}
(Used only in the shortened constructive form (the second form)); a primitive particle, properly denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, that is, near, with or among; often in general, to.
the liars; 907
{0907} Prime
בַּד
bad
{bad}
From H0908; a brag or lie; also a liar.
and they shall dote: 2973
{2973} Prime
יָאַל
ya'al
{yaw-al'}
A primitive root; properly to be slack, that is, (figuratively) to be foolish.
z8738
<8738> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 1429
a sword 2719
{2719} Prime
חֶרֶב
chereb
{kheh'-reb}
From H2717; drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement.
[is] upon x413
(0413) Complement
אֵל
'el
{ale}
(Used only in the shortened constructive form (the second form)); a primitive particle, properly denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, that is, near, with or among; often in general, to.
her mighty men; 1368
{1368} Prime
גִּבּוֹר
gibbowr
{ghib-bore'}
Intensive from the same as H1397; powerful; by implication warrior, tyrant.
and they shall be dismayed. 2865
{2865} Prime
חָתַת
chathath
{khaw-thath'}
A primitive root; properly to prostrate; hence to break down, either (literally) by violence, or (figuratively) by confusion and fear.
z8804
<8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Jeremiah 50:35-37.


Jeremiah 50:36

_ _ liars — Those whom he before termed “wise men,” he here calls “liars” (impostors), namely, the astrologers (compare Isaiah 44:25; Romans 1:21-25; 1 Corinthians 1:20).

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Jeremiah 50:33-46.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jeremiah 50:36

Dote — Their soothsayers and wizards shall dote, not foreseeing what will be. Dismayed — Their hearts shall fail them when this day comes.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
upon the liars:
or, upon the chief stays, Heb. bars,
Jeremiah 48:30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but [it shall] not [be] so; his lies shall not so effect [it].
Isaiah 43:14 Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry [is] in the ships.
*marg.
Isaiah 44:25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise [men] backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 [Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, ... And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
1 Timothy 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15 For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

dote:

2 Samuel 15:31 And [one] told David, saying, Ahithophel [is] among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
2 Samuel 17:14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
2 Chronicles 25:16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the king] said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
Isaiah 47:10-15 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I [am], and none else beside me. ... Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, [even] thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
1 Timothy 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

her mighty:

Jeremiah 50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 49:22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Jeremiah 51:23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
Jeremiah 51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in [their] holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
Jeremiah 51:32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
Nahum 2:8 But Nineveh [is] of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, [shall they cry]; but none shall look back.
Nahum 3:7 And it shall come to pass, [that] all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
Nahum 3:13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee [are] women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
Nahum 3:17-18 Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are]. ... Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell [in the dust]: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth [them].
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

2S 15:31; 17:14. 2Ch 25:16. Is 43:14; 44:25; 47:10. Jr 48:30; 49:22; 50:30; 51:23, 30, 32. Na 2:8; 3:7, 13, 17. 2Th 2:9. 1Ti 4:2; 6:4. Rv 19:20; 21:8; 22:15.

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