KJV King James Version
Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
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Isaiah 5:28
Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.
ASV American Standard Version
whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses’ hoofs shall be accounted as flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Whose arrows are sharp, and all its bows bent, Hoofs of its horses as flint have been reckoned, And its wheels as a hurricane!
Surrounding context — Isaiah 5
25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases [were] torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
28 Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
29 Their roaring [shall be] like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry [it] away safe, and none shall deliver [it].
30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if [one] look unto the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אֲשֶׁ֤רH834 · a.sherwhichחִצָּיו֙H2671 · chetsarrowשְׁנוּנִ֔יםH8150 · sha.nanto sharpenוְכָל־H3605 · kolallקַשְּׁתֹתָ֖יוH7198 · qe.shetbowדְּרֻכ֑וֹתH1869 · da.rakhto treadפַּרְס֤וֹתH6541 · par.sahhoofסוּסָיו֙H5483 · susswallowכַּצַּ֣רH6862 · tsarnarrowנֶחְשָׁ֔בוּH2803 · cha.shavto devise: designוְגַלְגִּלָּ֖יוH1534 · gal.galwheelכַּסּוּפָֽה׃H5492 · su.phahwhirlwind
Cross-references
Psalm 45:5Thine arrows [are] sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; [whereby] the people fall under thee.Nahum 2:3-4The 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.Ezekiel 21:9-11Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:Judges 5:22Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.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.Jeremiah 5:16Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men.Psalm 7:12-13If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.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.Psalm 120:4Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.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.Jeremiah 47:3At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong [horses], at the rushing of his chariots, [and at] the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to [their] children for feebleness of hands;
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