Isaiah 36:5

World English Bible (WEB)

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?

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3 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph the recorder came out to him.

4 Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?

5 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?

6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

7 But if you tell me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’?”

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Isaiah 36:5 in every translation

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?
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?
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?