KJV King James Version
Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle [and] bend the bow.
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Jeremiah 46:9
Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle [and] bend the bow.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth—Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of Lydia drawing the bow.
WEB World English Bible
Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.
ASV American Standard Version
Go up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handle the shield; and the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Go up, ye horses; and boast yourselves, ye chariots, And go forth, ye mighty, Cush and Phut handling the shield, And Lud handling—treading the bow.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 46
6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
7 Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and [his] waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, [and] will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle [and] bend the bow.
10 For this [is] the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; [for] thou shalt not be cured.
12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, [and] they are fallen both together.
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עֲל֤וּH5927 · a.lahto ascend: riseהַסּוּסִים֙H5483 · susswallowוְהִתְהֹלְל֣וּH1984 · ha.lalto shineהָרֶ֔כֶבH7393 · re.khevchariotוְיֵצְא֖וּH3318 · ya.tsato come out: comeהַגִּבּוֹרִ֑יםH1368 · gib.bormighty manכּ֤וּשׁH3568 · kushCushוּפוּט֙H6316 · putPutתֹּפְשֵׂ֣יH8610 · ta.pha.sto captureמָגֵ֔ןH4043 · ma.genshieldוְלוּדִ֕יםH3866 · lu.diLuditeתֹּפְשֵׂ֖יH8610 · ta.pha.sto captureדֹּ֥רְכֵיH1869 · da.rakhto treadקָֽשֶׁת׃H7198 · qe.shetbow
Cross-references
Ezekiel 27:10They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.Isaiah 66:19And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, [to] Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, [to] Tubal, and Javan, [to] the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.Nahum 3:9Ethiopia and Egypt [were] her strength, and [it was] infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.Jeremiah 30:5For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.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;Genesis 10:6And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.Genesis 10:13And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,1 Corinthians 1:8Who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye may be] blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.1 Chronicles 1:11And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,Acts 2:10Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,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.
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