Jeremiah 13:24
And I scatter them as stubble, || Passing away, by a wind of the wilderness.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 26:33And I scatter you among nations, and have drawn out a sword after you, and your land has been a desolation, and your cities are a ruin.
Deuteronomy 28:64and YHWH has scattered you among all the peoples, from the end of the earth even to the [other] end of the earth; and you have served other gods there which you have not known, you and your fathers—wood and stone.
Psalms 1:4Not so the wicked: But [they are] as chaff that wind drives away!
Isaiah 17:13Nations crash as the roaring of many waters, || And He rebuked them, || And they fled far off, || And were pursued as chaff of hills before wind, || And as a rolling thing before a windstorm.
Jeremiah 4:11At that time it is said of this people, || And of Jerusalem: “A dry wind of high places in the wilderness, || The way of the daughter of My people || (Not for winnowing, nor for cleansing),
Ezekiel 5:2You burn a third part with fire in the midst of the city, at the fullness of the days of the siege; and you have taken the third part, you strike with a weapon around it; and the third part you scatter to the wind, and I draw out a weapon after them.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 13:23-27
Punishment Predicted; Causes of Jerusalem's Ruin. ( b. c. 606.) 22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare. 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. 24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. 25 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the Lord ;… Read the whole commentary →