Jeremiah 5:15
Behold me! bringing upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, Declareth Yahweh,—A nation invincible, it is, A nation from age-past times, hath it been, A nation whose tongue thou shalt not know, Neither shalt thou understand what it speaketh:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
16Its quiver, is like an open sepulchre,—They all, are heroes:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:49Yahweh will bring against thee a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, as darteth a bird of prey,—a nation whose tongue thou canst not understand;
Isaiah 5:26Therefore will he lift up an ensign to the nations afar off, And signal for him from the end of the earth,—And lo! with hot haste, will he come:
Isaiah 29:3And I will encamp round about against thee,—And lay siege against thee with a fort, And raise against thee siege-works;
Isaiah 33:19The fierce people, shalt thou not see,—The people of too deep a lip to be understood, of too barbarous a tongue for thee to comprehend.
Jeremiah 2:26As the shame of a thief when he is found, So, hath been put to shame, the house of Israel,—They, their kings their princes, and their priests and their prophets:
Jeremiah 5:11For very treacherously, have the house of Israel and the house of Judah dealt with me, Declareth Yahweh.
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 →