Jeremiah 5:15
Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, || O house of Israel,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “It [is] a strong nation, || It [is] an ancient nation, || A nation whose tongue you do not know, || Nor understand what it speaks.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
16Its quiver [is] as an open tomb, || All of them—mighty ones.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:49YHWH lifts up a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth—it flies as the eagle—a nation whose tongue you have not heard,
Isaiah 5:26And He lifted up an ensign to the far-off nations, || And hissed to it from the end of the earth, || And behold, with haste, it comes swiftly.
Isaiah 29:3And I encamped, O babbler, against you, || And I laid siege against you—a camp. And I raised up bulwarks against you.
Isaiah 33:19You do not see the strong people, || A people deeper of lip than to be understood, || Of a scorned tongue, there is no understanding.
Jeremiah 2:26As the shame of a thief when he is found, || So has the house of Israel been put to shame, || They, their kings, their heads, || And their priests, and their prophets,
Jeremiah 5:11For the house of Israel has dealt treacherously against Me, || And the house of Judah,” || A declaration of YHWH.
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 →