Jeremiah 48:14
Good News Translation
"Men of Moab, why do you claim to be heroes, brave soldiers tested in war?

New Revised Standard Version
How can you say, “We are heroes and mighty warriors”?

Contemporary English Version
You claim that your soldiers are strong and brave.

New American Bible
How can you say, “We are heroes, mighty warriors”?

Douay-Rheims Bible
How do you say: We are valiant and stout men in battle?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

How do you say: We are valiant and stout men in battle?

How

Jeremiah 8:8 How do you say: We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Indeed the lying pens of the scribes hath wrought falsehood.

Psalm 11:1 Unto the end. A psalm to David.

Isaiah 36:4,5 And Rabsaces said to them: Tell Ezechias: Thus saith the great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this confidence wherein thou trustest? . . .

We

Jeremiah 9:23 Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches:

Jeremiah 49:16 Thy arrogancy hath deceived thee, and the pride of thy heart: O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, and endeavourest to lay hold on the height of the hill: but though thou shouldst make thy nest as high as an eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.

Psalm 33:16 The king is not saved by a great army: nor shall the giant be saved by his own great strength.

Ecclesiastes 9:11 I turned me to another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favour to the skilful: but time and chance in all.

Isaiah 10:13,16 For he hath said: By the strength of my own hand I have done it, and by my own wisdom I have understood: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have taken the spoils of the princes, and as a mighty man hath pulled down them that sat on high. . . .

Isaiah 16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, he is exceeding proud: his pride and his arrogancy, and his indignation is more than his strength.

Ezekiel 30:6 Thus saith the Lord God: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall, and the pride of her empire shall be brought down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord the God of hosts.

Zephaniah 2:10 This shall befall them for their pride: because they have blasphemed, and have been magnified against the people of the Lord of hosts.

Context
The Judgment on Moab
13And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, in which they trusted. 14How do you say: We are valiant and stout men in battle?15Moab is laid waste, and they have cast down her cities: and her choice young men are gone down to the slaughter: saith the king, whose name is the Lord of hosts.…
Cross References
Psalm 33:16
The king is not saved by a great army: nor shall the giant be saved by his own great strength.

Isaiah 10:13
For he hath said: By the strength of my own hand I have done it, and by my own wisdom I have understood: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have taken the spoils of the princes, and as a mighty man hath pulled down them that sat on high.

Jeremiah 48:13
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