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Jeremiah 13:24
24I will scatter you like drifting chaff before the desert wind.
Jeremiah 13:24 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
- New International Version (NIV)“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I will scatter you like chaff driven by the wind from the desert.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Therefore I will scatter them like stubble That passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
Context of Jeremiah 13:24
22And when you ask yourself, “Why have these things happened to me?” it is because of your great guilt that your skirts have been stripped off, your body exposed. 23Can the Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? If so, you might be able to do what is good, you who are instructed in evil. I will scatter you like drifting chaff before the desert wind. 25This is your lot, what I have decreed for you — this is the Lord’s declaration — because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies. 26I will pull your skirts up over your face so that your shame might be seen.
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וַאֲפִיצֵ֖ם כְּקַשׁ־עוֹבֵ֑ר לְר֖וּחַ מִדְבָּֽר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Jeremiah 13:24
- Leviticus 26:33But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.
- Deuteronomy 4:27The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be reduced to a few survivors among the nations where the Lord your God will drive you.
- Deuteronomy 28:64Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.
- Deuteronomy 32:26“I would have said: I will cut them to pieces and blot out the memory of them from mankind,
- Ezekiel 5:2You are to burn a third of it in the city when the days of the siege have ended; you are to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind, for I will draw a sword to chase after them.
- Ezekiel 6:8“Yet I will leave a remnant when you are scattered among the nations, for throughout the countries there will be some of you who will escape the sword.
- Ezekiel 17:21All the fugitives among his troops will fall by the sword, and those who survive will be scattered to every direction of the wind. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken.
- Luke 21:24They will be killed by the sword and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
- Jeremiah 4:11“At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, ‘A searing wind blows from the barren heights in the wilderness on the way to my dear people. It comes not to winnow or to sift;
- Psalms 1:4The wicked are not like this; instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.
- Psalms 83:13Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like straw before the wind.
- Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rumble of a huge torrent. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills and like tumbleweeds before a gale.
- Isaiah 41:16You will winnow them and a wind will carry them away, a whirlwind will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the Lord; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.
- Hosea 13:3Therefore, they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, or like smoke from a window.
- Zephaniah 2:2before the decree takes effect and the day passes like chaff, before the burning of the Lord’s anger overtakes you, before the day of the Lord’s anger overtakes you.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 13:24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24The wind of the wilderness - Some strong tempestuous wind, proverbially severe, coming from the desert to the south of Judea.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24Stubble - Broken straw separated from the wheat after the grain had been trampled out by the oxen. Sometimes it was burned as useless; at other times left to be blown away by the wind from the desert.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-27Verses 18-27 Here is a message sent to king Jehoiakim, and his queen. Their sorrows would be great indeed. Do they ask, Wherefore come these things upon us? Let them know, it is for their obstinacy in sin. We cannot alter the natural colour of the skin; and so is it morally impossible to reclaim and reform these people. Sin is the blackness of the soul; it is the discolouring of it; we were shapen in it, so that we cannot get clear of it by any power of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 24I will scatter you like chaff: This image shows the exile of the people of Judah. Compare with Psalm 1:4–5.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2424. (Psa 1:4). by the wind--before the wind. of the wilderness--where the wind has full sweep, not being broken by any obstacle.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 13
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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