‘They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle, for My wrath is against all their multitude.
Parallel translations
- WEB They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but no one goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude.
- KJV They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
- BSB They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to war, for My wrath is upon the whole multitude.
- NKJV ‘They have blown the trumpet and made everyone ready, But no one goes to battle; For My wrath is on all their multitude.
- NLT “The trumpet calls Israel’s army to mobilize, but no one listens, for my fury is against them all.
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Quick answer
The trumpet sounds and all is ready, but no one goes to battle, for God's wrath is on all. Human preparation cannot resist divine judgment.
Overview
Though the alarm is blown and forces mustered, courage fails and none march out, because God's wrath paralyzes them. The scene shows the futility of military readiness when the Lord Himself stands against a people. No strength of arms can prevail against God, teaching that true security is found only in being right with Him.
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Cross-references · 8
- Jer 4:5Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let us go into the fortified cities!’
- Ezek 7:11–12Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There shall be nothing of value among them.
- Jer 6:11Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
- Jer 12:12Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No flesh has peace.
- Jer 51:27“Set up a standard in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against her! Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz! Appoint a marshal against her! Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm!
- Jer 6:1“Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks out from the north, and a great destruction.
- Jer 7:20Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.”
- Isa 24:1–7Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
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