Jeremiah 15:13

Thy strength and thy treasures For a prey I do give — not for price, Even for all thy sins, and in all thy borders.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

In Context

12Doth one break iron — northern iron, and brass?

14And I have caused thine enemies To pass over into the land — Thou hast not known, For a fire hath been kindled in Mine anger, Against you it doth burn.

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Cross References

Isaiah 52:3For thus said Jehovah: 'For nought ye have been sold, And not by money are ye redeemed.'

Jeremiah 15:8Its widows have been more to Me than the sand of the seas, I brought in to them — against the mother — A young man — a spoiler — at noon. I caused to fall upon her suddenly, wrath and trouble.

Jeremiah 20:5And I have given all the strength of this city, And all its labour, and all its precious things, Yea, all the treasures of the kings of Judah I do give into the hand of their enemies, And they have spoiled them, and taken them, And have brought them into Babylon.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 15:11-15

The Prophet's Complaint; The Prophet Assured of His Safety. ( b. c. 606.) 10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me. 11 The Lord said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. 12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? 13 Thy substance and… Read the whole commentary →

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