Jeremiah 5:15
Lo, I will bring over you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, it is a most ancient nation, a nation whose language thou wilt not know, and thou wilt not understand what they speak.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
16Their quiver is as an open sepulchre: they are all mighty men.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:49The Lord will bring up against thee a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle rusheth down; a nation whose tongue thou wilt not understand;
Isaiah 5:26And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from afar, and will call for one of them from the end of the earth; and, behold, with speed, swiftly, it cometh;
Isaiah 29:3And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with hostile posts, and I will raise up entrenchments against thee.
Isaiah 33:19The barbarous people shalt thou not see any more, the people of a speech too obscure to be understood, of a stammering tongue, without meaning.
Jeremiah 2:26As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so have the house of Israel been made ashamed, they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
Jeremiah 5:11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the Lord.
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 →