Jeremiah Chapter 5 verse 16 Holy Bible
Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
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Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.
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Their quiver is as an open sepulchre; they are all mighty men.
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Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
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Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.
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Its quiver `is' as an open sepulchre, All of them -- mighty ones.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - Their quiver. (See on Jeremiah 4:29.) As an open sepulcher; i.e. furnished with deadly arrows, "fiery darts." So the psalmist, of the "throat" of deceitful persecutors (Psalm 5:9).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) An open sepulchre.--Every arrow in the quivers of the Chaldaean bowmen was to be as a messenger of death, a blast or pestilence from the grave.