Isaiah 5:28
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Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.
In other translations
Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.
Hebrew words
אֲשֶׁר'asherwhichH834חִצָּיוchitzavarrows itsH2671שְׁנוּנִיםshenunim[are] sharpenedH8150וְכָל־vekholand allH3605קַשְּׁתֹתָיוkashetotavbows itsH7198דְּרֻכוֹתderukhot[are] bentH1869פַּרְסוֹתparsot[the] hooves ofH6541סוּסָיוsusavhorses itsH5483כַּצַּרkatzarlike <the> flintH6862נֶחְשָׁבוּnechshavuthey are regardedH2803וְגַלְגִּלָּיוvegalgilavand wheels itsH1534כַּסּוּפָה׃kasufahlike <the> storm-windH5492
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Related verses
- Psalm 45:5Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s foes; the nations fall beneath your feet.
- Nahum 2:3-43 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken. 4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.3 The shields of his mighty men are red; the valiant warriors are dressed in scarlet. The fittings of the chariots flash like fire on the day they are prepared, and the spears of cypress have been brandished. 4 The chariots dash through the streets; they rush around the plazas, appearing like torches, darting about like lightning.
- Ezekiel 21:9-119 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: 10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree. 11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.9 “Son of man, prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord says: ‘A sword, a sword, sharpened and polished— 10 it is sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son? The sword despises every such stick. 11 The sword is appointed to be polished, to be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened and polished, to be placed in the hand of the slayer.
- Isaiah 21:1The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
- Jeremiah 5:16Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.Their quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men.
- Psalm 120:4Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!
- Micah 4:13Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
- Nahum 3:2The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
- Psalm 7:12-1312 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.12 If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow. 13 He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
- Judges 5:22Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.Then the hooves of horses thundered— the mad galloping of his stallions.
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