Jeremiah 5:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Isa 5:28 : 28 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.
  • Ps 5:9 : 9 For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.
  • Rom 3:13 : 13 Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

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  • 15 See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.

  • 17 They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • Jer 6:22-23
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    22 The Lord has said, See, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.

    23 Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Zion.

  • Isa 5:28-29
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    28 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.

    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.

  • 21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

  • Isa 13:15-16
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    15 Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.

    16 Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.

  • 3 Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse.

  • 40 And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.

  • Lev 26:37-38
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    37 Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.

    38 And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.

  • 25 Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.

  • 22 She makes a sound like the hiss of a snake when they come on with strength; they go against her with axes, like wood-cutters.

  • Joel 3:9-10
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    9 And further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle of Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and suddenly I will send it back on your head,

    10 For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.

  • 17 For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.

  • 16 And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their daughters: for I will let loose their evil-doing on them.

  • 18 In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.

  • 37 A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.

  • Ps 127:4-5
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    4 Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young.

    5 Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.

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

  • 25 Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

  • 7 But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.

  • 42 Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Babylon.

  • 7 They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.

  • 5 Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.

  • 16 For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your goods by force will undergo the same themselves.

  • 30 For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord.

  • 14 The Lord of armies has taken an oath by himself, saying, Truly, I will make you full with men as with locusts, and their voices will be loud against you.

  • 4 Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

  • 5 They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land.

  • 15 Outside is the sword, and inside disease and need of food: he who is in the open country will be put to the sword; he who is in the town will come to his end through need of food and disease.

  • 5 Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.

  • 7 See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

  • 9 Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.

  • 8 I have let their widows be increased in number more than the sand of the seas: I have sent against them, against the mother and the young men, one who makes waste in the heat of the day, causing pain and fears to come on her suddenly.

  • 1 See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

  • 13 See, the people who are in you are women; the doorways of your land are wide open to your attackers: the locks of your doors have been burned away in the fire.

  • 10 For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

  • 15 For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.

  • 9 They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.

  • 5 Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.

  • 16 And I will send them wandering among the nations, among people strange to them and to their fathers: and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them.

  • 13 And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

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

  • 8 All of them armed with swords, trained in war; every man has his sword at his side, because of fear in the night.

  • 16 The nations will see and be shamed because of all their strength; they will put their hands on their mouths, their ears will be stopped.