Jeremiah 50:37
Good News Translation
Destroy its horses and chariots! Death to its hired soldiers--how weak they are! Destroy its treasures; plunder and loot.

New Revised Standard Version
A sword against her horses and against her chariots, and against all the foreign troops in her midst, so that they may become women! A sword against all her treasures, that they may be plundered!

Contemporary English Version
Then your chariot horses and the foreigners in your army will refuse to go into battle, and the enemy will carry away everything you treasure.

New American Bible
A sword upon their motley throng, and they become women! A sword upon their treasures, and they are plundered;

Douay-Rheims Bible
A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the people that are in the midst of her: and they shall become as women: a sword upon her treasures, and they shall be made a spoil.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the people that are in the midst of her: and they shall become as women: a sword upon her treasures, and they shall be made a spoil.

their horses

Jeremiah 51:21 And with thee I will break in pieces the horse, and his rider, and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot, and him that getteth up into it:

Psalm 20:7,8 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will call upon the name of the Lord, our God. . . .

Psalm 46:9 Making wars to cease even to the end of the earth. He shall destroy the bow, and break the weapons: and the shield he shall burn in the fire.

Psalm 76:6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they have all slumbered that mounted on horseback.

Ezekiel 39:20 And you shall be filled at my table with horses, and mighty horsemen, and all the men of war, saith the Lord God.

Nahum 2:2-4,13 For the Lord hath rendered the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel: because the spoilers have laid them waste, and have marred their vine branches. . . .

Haggai 2:22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and will destroy the strength of the kingdom of the Gentiles: and I will overthrow the chariot, and him that rideth therein: and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

all the

Jeremiah 25:20,24 And all in general: all the kings of the land of Ausitis, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ascalon, and Gaza, and Accaron, and the remnant of Azotus. . . .

Ezekiel 30:5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the rest of the crowd, and Chub, and the children of the land of the covenant, shall fall with them by the sword.

as women

Jeremiah 48:41 Carioth is taken, and the strongholds are won: and the heart of the valiant men of Moab in that day shall be as the heart of a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 51:30 The valiant men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have dwelt in holds: their strength hath failed, and they are become as women: her dwelling places are burnt, her bars are broken.

Isaiah 19:16 In that day Egypt shall be like unto women, and they shall be amazed, and afraid, because of the moving of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shall move over it.

Nahum 3:13 Behold thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open to thy enemies, the fire shall devour thy bars.

her treasures

Jeremiah 50:26 Come ye against her from the uttermost borders: open that they may go forth that shall tread her down: take the stones out of the way, and make heaps, and destroy her: and let nothing of her be left.

Isaiah 45:3 And I will give thee hidden treasures, and the concealed riches of secret places: that thou mayest know that I am the Lord who call thee by thy name, the God of Israel.

Context
The Destruction of Babylon
36A sword upon her diviners, and they shall be foolish: a sword upon her valiant ones, and they shall be dismayed. 37A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the people that are in the midst of her: and they shall become as women: a sword upon her treasures, and they shall be made a spoil.38A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things.…
Cross References
Psalm 20:7
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will call upon the name of the Lord, our God.

Psalm 20:8
They are bound, and have fallen: but we are risen, and are set upright.

Isaiah 45:3
And I will give thee hidden treasures, and the concealed riches of secret places: that thou mayest know that I am the Lord who call thee by thy name, the God of Israel.

Jeremiah 25:20
And all in general: all the kings of the land of Ausitis, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ascalon, and Gaza, and Accaron, and the remnant of Azotus.

Jeremiah 25:24
And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the west, that dwell in the desert.

Jeremiah 48:41
Carioth is taken, and the strongholds are won: and the heart of the valiant men of Moab in that day shall be as the heart of a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 51:4
And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions thereof.

Jeremiah 51:21
And with thee I will break in pieces the horse, and his rider, and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot, and him that getteth up into it:

Jeremiah 51:22
And with thee I will break in pieces man and woman, and with thee I will break in pieces the old man and the child, and with thee I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin:

Jeremiah 51:30
The valiant men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have dwelt in holds: their strength hath failed, and they are become as women: her dwelling places are burnt, her bars are broken.

Ezekiel 30:5
Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the rest of the crowd, and Chub, and the children of the land of the covenant, shall fall with them by the sword.

Nahum 3:13
Behold thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open to thy enemies, the fire shall devour thy bars.

Jeremiah 50:36
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