Isaiah 36:5

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?

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3 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him.

4 The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?

5 You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?

6 Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

7 But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?

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Isaiah 36:5 in every translation

BSB Berean Standard Bible: You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
KJV King James Version: I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
WEB World English Bible: I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
ASV American Standard Version: I say, thy counsel and strength for the war are but vain words: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me?
YLT Young's Literal Translation: I have said: Only, a word of the lips! counsel and might [are] for battle: now, on whom hast thou trusted, that thou hast rebelled against me?
DBY Darby Translation: Thou sayest, but it is a word of the lips, [There is] counsel and strength for war. Now on whom dost thou rely, that thou hast revolted against me?
WBS Webster Bible: I say, sayest thou (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?