Jeremiah 15:5

Jeremiah 15:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
• New International Version (NIV)“Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will stop to ask how you are?
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will grieve for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
• New King James Version (NKJV)“For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Or who will bemoan you? Or who will turn aside to ask how you are doing?

Context of Jeremiah 15:5

3I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. 4I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem. Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare? 6You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion. 7I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.

Jeremiah 15:5 word by word

כִּ֠י מִֽי־יַחְמֹ֤ל עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וּמִ֖י יָנ֣וּד לָ֑ךְ וּמִ֣י יָס֔וּר לִשְׁאֹ֥ל לְשָׁלֹ֖ם לָֽךְ׃Read the interlinear

• ·כִּיkîy · forH3588
• Whoמִיmîy · who?H4310
• will have pityחָמַלchâmal · to spareH2550
• on youעַל‛al · uponH5921
• O Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵםyerûshâlaim yerûshâlayim · JerusalemH3389
• will mournנוּדnûd · to wanderH5110
• will turn asideסוּרsûr ώûr · to turn aside: turn asideH5493
• to askשָׁאַלshâ'al shâ'êl · to askH7592
• about your welfareשָׁלוֹםshâlôm shâlôm · peace: well-beingH7965

Cross-references for Jeremiah 15:5

• Jeremiah 16:5Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.
• Jeremiah 21:7‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’
• Job 19:21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
• Psalms 69:20Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.
• Isaiah 51:19These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?
• Lamentations 1:12Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?
• Lamentations 2:15All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
• Nahum 3:7Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”
• Exodus 18:7So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.
• Judges 18:15So they turned aside there and went to the home of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and greeted him.
• 1 Samuel 10:4They will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you will accept from their hands.
• 1 Samuel 17:22Then David left his supplies in the care of the quartermaster and ran to the battle line. When he arrived, he asked his brothers how they were doing.
• 1 Samuel 25:5So David sent ten young men and instructed them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel. Greet him in my name

Commentaries on Jeremiah 15:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Who shall go aside to ask how thou doest? - Perhaps there is not a more despised nor a more degraded people under the sun. Scarcely any one thinks himself called upon to do a kind office for a Jew. Their character is bad in society, and they are not at all solicitous to redeem it.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5These are rhetorical questions. The answer is "no one!"Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. go aside ... how thou doest--Who will turn aside (in passing by) to salute thee (to wish thee "peace")?Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 15:5

• Backsliders
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning

In the dictionaries

• Jerusalem
• Languish
• Rebuke
• Residue
• Revenge

Commentaries on Jeremiah 15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings