Jeremiah 5:17
Then shall it eat thy harvest and thy bread which thy sons and thy daughters should eat,—It shall eat thy flock and thy herd, It shall eat thy vine and thy fig-tree,—It shall destroy thy defenced cities wherein thou, art trusting, with the sword.
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:
18Yet, even in those days, Declareth Yahweh, Will I not make of you, a full end.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:30A wife, shalt thou betroth, and, another man shall lie with her. A house, shalt thou build, and shalt not dwell therein,—A vineyard, shalt thou plant, and shalt not throw it open;
Judges 6:3And so it used to be, if Israel had sown, then came up Midian and Amalek and the sons of the east, yea came up against them,
Isaiah 62:9But they who have garnered it, shall eat it, and praise Yahweh,—And they who have gathered in its clusters, shall drink it in my holy courts.
Jeremiah 1:15For behold me! calling for all the families of the kingdoms of the North, Declareth Yahweh,—and they shall come, and set every one his throne at the opening of the gates of Jerusalem and against all her walls round about, and against all the cities of Judah!
Jeremiah 4:26I beheld, And lo! the garden-land, was a desert,—And, all its cities, had been broken down, Because of Yahweh, Because of the glow of his anger!
Jeremiah 50:7All who found them, devoured them, And, their adversaries, said—We shall not be, guilty,—Because they have sinned, Against, Yahweh the pasturage of righteousness, Yea the hope of their fathers—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 →