Bible Strands
Jeremiah 50:37
A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeremiah pronounces this oracle against Babylon as part of a sequential judgment sequence detailing the collapse of its military and economic infrastructure.
The words — חֶרֶב (Che.rev) denotes a sword, while הָעֶרֶב (ha.'E.rev) refers to a foreigner or mixed multitude, both anchoring the verse’s declaration of targeted invasion.
The thread — The motif of warriors reduced to the status of women appears in Nahum 3:13 and Jeremiah 51:30, while the judgment on foreign elements parallels Jeremiah 25:20.
Why it lands — The text reports the stripping of military strength, foreign presence, and treasury wealth, requiring a reader to acknowledge that prophesied judgment overrides human defenses.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 51:30 The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
- Nahum 3:13 Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
- Jeremiah 25:20 all the mixed tribes; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
- Jeremiah 48:41 Kirioth has been taken, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
- Jeremiah 51:21 With you I shatter the horse and rider; with you I shatter the chariot and driver.
- Isaiah 19:16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.
- Psalms 20:7 Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
- Isaiah 45:3 I will give you the treasures of darkness and the riches hidden in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by name.
- Ezekiel 30:5 Cush, Put, and Lud, and all the various peoples, as well as Libya and the men of the covenant land, will fall with Egypt by the sword.
- Psalms 46:9 He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire.