Jeremiah 10:24

Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judgement: and not in fury, lest thou bring me to nothing.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

In Context

23I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither is it in a man to walk, and to direct his steps.

25Pour out thy indignation upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the provinces that have not called upon thy name: because they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have destroyed his glory.

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Cross References

Job 6:18The paths of their steps are entangled: they shall walk in vain, and shall perish.

Psalms 6:2O Lord, rebuke me not in thy indignation, nor chastise me in thy wrath.

Isaiah 28:28But bread corn shall be broken small: but the thrasher shall not thrash it for ever, neither shall the cart wheel hurt it, nor break it with its teeth.

Isaiah 41:11Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and ashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive against thee.

Habakkuk 3:2O Lord, I have heard thy hearing, and was afraid. O Lord, thy work, in the midst of the years bring it to life: In the midst of the years thou shalt make it known: when thou art angry, thou wilt remember mercy.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 10:18-25

Lamentation of Judah; Sovereignty of Divine Providence; Prophetic Imprecations. ( b. c. 606.) 17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. 18 For thus saith the Lord , Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so. 19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it. 20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are… Read the whole commentary →

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