American King James Version
"I say, say you, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom do you trust, that you rebel against me? "
— Isaiah 36:5, American 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?”
“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? ”
“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?”
“Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. In whom are you trusting, that you would dare to rebel against me?”
“Or with what counsel or strength dost thou prepare for war? on whom dost thou trust, that thou art revolted from me?”
“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?”
“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?”
And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field.
Then came forth to him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder. ¶
And Rabshakeh said to them, Say you now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein you trust?
I say, say you, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?
See, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; where on if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
But if you say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar?
Now therefore give pledges, I pray you, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you be able on your part to set riders on them.