Jeremiah 5:17

And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour thy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword they shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

In Context

16Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant.

18Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you to utter destruction.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:30Mayst thou take a wife, and another sleep with her. Mayst thou build a house, and not dwell therein. Mayest thou plant a vineyard and not gather the vintage thereof.

Judges 6:3And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the rest of the eastern nations came up:

Isaiah 62:9For they that gather it, shall eat it, and shall praise the Lord: and they that bring it together, shall drink it in my holy courts.

Jeremiah 1:15For behold I will call together all the families of the kingdoms of the north: saith the Lord: and they shall come, and shall set every one his throne in the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and upon all the walls thereof round about, and upon all the cities of Juda,

Jeremiah 4:26I looked, and behold Carmel was a wilderness: and all its cities were destroyed at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of the wrath of his indignation.

Jeremiah 50:7All that found them, have devoured them: and their enemies said: We have not sinned in so doing: because they have sinned against the Lord the beauty of justice, and against the Lord the hope of their fathers.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 5:11-20

Divine Judgments Threatened; Divine Judgments Vindicated. ( b. c. 608.) 10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord 's. 11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the Lord . 12 They have belied the Lord , and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: 13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be… Read the whole commentary →

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