Jeremiah 51:3 - English Standard Version 2016

³ Let not the archer bend his bow, and let him not stand up in his armor. Spare not her young men; devote to destruction all her army.

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Let not him that bendeth bend his bow, and let not him go up that is armed with a coat of mail: spare not her young men, destroy all her army.

Jeremiah 51:3 Cross References

Psalm 137:9

Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!

Jeremiah 46:4

Harness the horses; mount, O horsemen! Take your stations with your helmets, polish your spears, put on your armor!

Jeremiah 50:14

Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:21

“Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Kill, and devote them to destruction, declares the Lord, and do all that I have commanded you.

Jeremiah 50:27

Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 51:53

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, yet destroyers would come from me against her, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:21

For death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.

Deuteronomy 32:25

Outdoors the sword shall bereave, and indoors terror, for young man and woman alike, the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

James 2:13

For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.