Jeremiah 50:36
New International Version
A sword against her false prophets! They will become fools. A sword against her warriors! They will be filled with terror.

New Living Translation
The sword will strike her wise counselors, and they will become fools. The sword will strike her mightiest warriors, and panic will seize them.

English Standard Version
A sword against the diviners, that they may become fools! A sword against her warriors, that they may be destroyed!

Berean Standard Bible
A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.

King James Bible
A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

New King James Version
A sword is against the soothsayers, and they will be fools. A sword is against her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.

New American Standard Bible
“A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become fools! A sword against her warriors, and they will be shattered!

NASB 1995
“A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become fools! A sword against her mighty men, and they will be shattered!

NASB 1977
“A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become fools! A sword against her mighty men, and they will be shattered!

Legacy Standard Bible
A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become fools! A sword against her mighty men, and they will be shattered!

Amplified Bible
“A sword against the oracle priests (the babbling liars), and they will become fools! A sword against her mighty warriors, and they will be shattered and destroyed!

Christian Standard Bible
A sword is against the diviners, and they will act foolishly. A sword is against her heroic warriors, and they will be terrified.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A sword is against the diviners, and they will act foolishly. A sword is against her heroic warriors, and they will be terrified.

American Standard Version
A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
A sword on her Soothsayers and her mighty men shall be stricken with a sword, and they shall be defeated

Brenton Septuagint Translation
a sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened: a sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots:

Contemporary English Version
This war will prove that your prophets are liars and fools. And it will frighten your warriors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A sword upon her diviners, and they shall be foolish: a sword upon her valiant ones, and they shall be dismayed.

English Revised Version
A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A sword will kill the false prophets. They will become fools. A sword will kill their soldiers and defeat them.

Good News Translation
Death to its lying prophets--what fools they are! Death to its soldiers--how terrified they are!

International Standard Version
A sword against the diviners. They'll be made fools. A sword against her warriors. They'll be shattered.

JPS Tanakh 1917
A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools; A sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

Literal Standard Version
A sword [is] on the princes, | And they have become foolish; A sword [is] on her mighty ones, | And they have been broken down;

Majority Standard Bible
A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.

New American Bible
A sword upon the soothsayers, and they become fools! A sword upon the warriors, and they tremble;

NET Bible
Destructive forces will come against her false prophets; they will be shown to be fools! Destructive forces will come against her soldiers; they will be filled with terror!

New Revised Standard Version
A sword against the diviners, so that they may become fools! A sword against her warriors, so that they may be destroyed!

New Heart English Bible
A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

Webster's Bible Translation
A sword is upon the liars; and they shall be sottish: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

World English Bible
A sword is on the boasters, and they will become fools. A sword is on her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.

Young's Literal Translation
A sword is on the princes, And they have become foolish; A sword is on her mighty ones, And they have been broken down;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Destruction of Babylon
35A sword is against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, against those who live in Babylon, and against her officials and wise men. 36A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror. 37A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.…

Cross References
Isaiah 44:25
who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,

Jeremiah 49:22
Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom's mighty men will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 51:30
The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon's homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.

Nahum 3:13
Look at your troops--they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.


Treasury of Scripture

A sword is on the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is on her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

upon the liars.

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.

Isaiah 44:25
That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;

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.

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Jeremiah 50
1. The judgment of Babylon and the redemption of Israel














(36) A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote.--The Hebrew word for "liars"--literally, boastings--implies the falsehood of folly rather than of purpose. Better, perhaps, the prating fools. The marginal readings "chief stays" and "bars" rest on no adequate authority. Here the word applies to the diviners and magicians (comp. Isaiah 44:25).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
A sword
חֶ֥רֶב (ḥe·reḇ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

[is] against
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

her diviners,
הַבַּדִּ֖ים (hab·bad·dîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 907: A brag, lie, a liar

and they will become fools.
וְנֹאָ֑לוּ (wə·nō·’ā·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2973: To be slack, to be foolish

A sword
חֶ֥רֶב (ḥe·reḇ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

is against
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

her warriors,
גִּבּוֹרֶ֖יהָ (gib·bō·w·re·hā)
Adjective - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 1368: Powerful, warrior, tyrant

and they will be filled with terror.
וָחָֽתּוּ׃ (wā·ḥāt·tū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2865: To prostrate, to break down, either, by violence, by confusion and fear


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