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Isaiah Chapter 36 verse 5 Holy Bible

ASV Isaiah 36:5

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?
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BBE Isaiah 36:5

You say you have a design and strength for war, but these are only words: now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority?
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DARBY Isaiah 36:5

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?
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KJV Isaiah 36:5

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?
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WBT Isaiah 36:5

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WEB Isaiah 36:5

I say, [your] counsel and strength for the war are but vain words: now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
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YLT Isaiah 36:5

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?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - I say. In 2 Kings 18:20 we read, "Thou sayest" for "I say," which gives a better sense. Dr. Kay holds the two forms to be "complementary." I have counsel and strength for war. Either the words of Hezekiah had been reported to Sennacherib, or he rightly divined Hezekiah's thoughts. It was, no doubt, in reliance on the "counsel" of Eliakim and the "strength" of Egypt that the Jewish monarch had a second time provoked his suzerain.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5, 6) I have counsel and strength for war . . .--Reports of Hezekiah's speech. probably also of his negotiations with Egypt, had reached the ears of the Assyrian king. So Sennacherib. in his inscriptions, speaks of "the king of Egypt as a monarch who could not save those who trusted in him" (Smith, Assyrian Canon). The Pharaoh in this case was Shabatoka, or Sabaco II., the father of the Tir-hakah of Isa xxxvii 9, one of the Ethiopian dynasty that reigned in Egypt from B.C. 725-665.