Isaiah 36:5

King James Version (KJV)

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?

Open in Mac app

In context

3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder.

4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

5 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?

6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?

Read the whole of Isaiah 36

Isaiah 36:5 in every translation

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?
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?
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?