Jeremiah 6:5
Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 48:3With the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion founded, on the sides of the north, the city of the great king.
Jeremiah 9:21For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah 52:7And the city was broken up, and the men of war fled, and went out of the city in the night by the way of the gate that is between the two walls, and leadeth to the king's garden, (the Chaldeans besieging the city round about, ) sad they went by the way that leadeth to the wilderness.
Hosea 8:14And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built temples: and Juda hath built many fenced cities: and I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the houses thereof.
Amos 3:10And they have not known to do the right thing, saith the Lord, storing up iniquity, and robberies in their houses.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 6:2-9
Judgments Threatened against Israel; The Doom of Israel. ( b. c. 608.) 1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. 2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. 3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place. 4… Read the whole commentary →