THEOSISJeremiah 51:3Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
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.
אֶֽל־יִדְרֹ֤ךְ ידרך הַדֹּרֵךְ֙ קַשְׁתּ֔וֹ וְאֶל־יִתְעַ֖ל בְּסִרְיֹנ֑וֹ וְאַֽל־תַּחְמְלוּ֙ אֶל־בַּ֣חֻרֶ֔יהָ הַחֲרִ֖ימוּ כָּל־צְבָאָֽהּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Jer 50:14Prepare yourselves against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow: fight against her, spare not arrows: because she hath sinned against the Lord.
- Jer 46:4Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen: stand forth with helmets, furbish the spears, put on coats of mail.
- Jer 50:21Go up against the land of the rulers, and punish the inhabitants thereof, waste, and destroy all behind them, saith the Lord: and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
- Isa 13:10For the stars of heaven, and their brightness shall not display their light: the sun shall be darkened in his rising, and the moon shall not shine with her light.
- Isa 13:18But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare their sons.
- Deut 32:25Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.
- Jas 2:13For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.
- Jer 9:21For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.