Jeremiah 5:16
Good News Translation
Their archers are mighty soldiers who kill without mercy.

New Revised Standard Version
Their quiver is like an open tomb; all of them are mighty warriors.

Contemporary English Version
All of them are warriors, and their arrows bring death.

New American Bible
Their quivers are like open graves; all of them are warriors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant.

Psalm 5:9 For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

Isaiah 5:28 Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of their horses shall be like the flint, and their wheels like the violence of a tempest.

Romans 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

Context
Judgment Proclaimed
15Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say. 16Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant.17And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour thy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword they shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest.…
Cross References
Psalm 5:9
For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

Isaiah 5:28
Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of their horses shall be like the flint, and their wheels like the violence of a tempest.

Isaiah 13:18
But 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.

Lamentations 3:13
He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.

Jeremiah 5:15
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