Jeremiah 5:15
Lo, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah, A nation — strong it [is], a nation — from of old it [is], A nation — thou knowest not its tongue, Nor understandest what it speaketh.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
16Its quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, All of them — mighty ones.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:49'Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard,
Isaiah 5:26And He lifted up an ensign to nations afar off, And hissed to it from the end of the earth, And lo, with haste, swift it cometh.
Isaiah 29:3And I encamped, O babbler, against thee, And I laid siege against thee — a camp. And I raised up against thee bulwarks.
Isaiah 33:19The strong people thou seest not, 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 put to shame have been the house of Israel, They, their kings, their heads, And their priests, and their prophets,
Jeremiah 5:11For dealt treacherously against Me have the house of Israel, And the house of Judah, an affirmation of Jehovah.
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 →