Isaiah 5:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.

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  • Ps 45:5 : 5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.
  • Ps 120:4 : 4 Sharp arrows of the strong, and burning fire.
  • Isa 21:1 : 1 The word about the waste land. As storm-winds in the South go rushing through, it comes from the waste land, from the land greatly to be feared.
  • Jer 5:16 : 16 Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.
  • Jer 47:3 : 3 At the noise of the stamping of the feet of his war-horses, at the rushing of his carriages and the thunder of his wheels, fathers will give no thought to their children, because their hands are feeble;
  • Ezek 21:9-9 : 9 Son of man, say as a prophet, These are the words of the Lord: Say, A sword, a sword which has been made sharp and polished: 10 It has been made sharp to give death; it is polished so that it may be like a thunder-flame: ... 11 And I have given it to the polisher so that it may be taken in the hand: he has made the sword sharp, he has had it polished, to put it into the hand of him who gives death.
  • Mic 4:13 : 13 Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
  • Nah 2:3-4 : 3 For the Lord will make good the vine of Jacob, as well as the vine of Israel: for the wasters have made them waste and sent destruction on the branches of their vine. 4 The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.
  • Nah 3:2 : 2 The noise of the whip, and the noise of thundering wheels; horses rushing and war-carriages jumping,
  • Judg 5:22 : 22 Then loudly the feet of the horses were sounding with the stamping, the stamping of their war-horses.
  • Ps 7:12-13 : 12 If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready. 13 He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

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    3 Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.

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    29 The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.

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    2 The noise of the whip, and the noise of thundering wheels; horses rushing and war-carriages jumping,

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    9 He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

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    3 At the noise of the stamping of the feet of his war-horses, at the rushing of his carriages and the thunder of his wheels, fathers will give no thought to their children, because their hands are feeble;

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    16 Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.

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    22 Then loudly the feet of the horses were sounding with the stamping, the stamping of their war-horses.

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    9 And they had breastplates like iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of carriages, like an army of horses rushing to the fight.

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  • Jer 4:29
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    4 Make the horses ready, and get up, you horsemen, and take your places with your head-dresses; make the spears sharp and put on the breastplates.

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    15 But their swords will be turned into their hearts, and their bows will be broken.

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