Jeremiah 51:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ 1 Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Against him who bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. And spare not her young men; devote [to God] and utterly destroy her entire host.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his coat of mail: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

Common English Bible

³ Let the archers draw their bows; let them prepare their armor. Show no mercy to her young men; wipe out her entire company!

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Let him who draws the bow, not draw his bow. And let him who wears armor, not rise up. Do not spare her young men. Destroy her entire military.

Jeremiah 51:3 Cross References

Psalm 137:9

If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation, thou wilt quicken me: and thou hast stretched forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies: and thy right hand hath saved me.

Jeremiah 46:4

2 The nations have heard of thy disgrace, and thy howling hath filled the land: for the strong hath stumbled against the strong, and both are fallen together.

Jeremiah 50:14

2 A noise of war in the land, and a great destruction.

Jeremiah 50:21

9 Declare to many against Babylon, to all that bend the bow: stand together against her round about, and let nose escape; pay her according to her work: according to all that she hath done, do ye to her: for she hath lifted up herself against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 50:27

5 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

Jeremiah 51:53

1 And Jeremias said to Saraias: When thou shalt come into Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words,

Jeremiah 9:21

For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe.

Deuteronomy 32:25

0 How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

James 2:13

2 Seest thou, that faith did co-operate with his works; and by works faith was made perfect?