Jeremiah 15:7

Jeremiah 15:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
• New International Version (NIV)I will winnow them with a winnowing fork at the city gates of the land. I will bring bereavement and destruction on my people, for they have not changed their ways.
• English Standard Version (ESV)I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And I will winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children; I will destroy My people, Since they do not return from their ways.

Context of Jeremiah 15:7

5Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will show sympathy toward you? Who will turn aside to ask about your well-being? 6You have left me.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “You have turned your back, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am tired of showing compassion. I scattered them with a winnowing fork at the city gates of the land. I made them childless; I destroyed my people. They would not turn from their ways. 8I made their widows more numerous than the sand of the seas. I brought a destroyer at noon against the mother of young men. I suddenly released on her agitation and terrors. 9The mother of seven grew faint; she breathed her last breath. Her sun set while it was still day; she was ashamed and humiliated. The rest of them I will give over to the sword in the presence of their enemies.” This is the Lord’s declaration.

Jeremiah 15:7 word by word

וָאֶזְרֵ֥ם בְּמִזְרֶ֖ה בְּשַׁעֲרֵ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ שִׁכַּ֤לְתִּי אִבַּ֙דְתִּי֙ אֶת־עַמִּ֔י מִדַּרְכֵיהֶ֖ם לוֹא־שָֽׁבוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And I will fanזָרָהzârâh · to scatterH2219
• them with a fanמִזְרֶהmizreh · pitchforkH4214
• in the gatesשַׁ֫עַרsha‛ar · gateH8179
• of the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• I will bereaveשָׁכֹלshâkôl · be bereavedH7921
• of children, I will destroyאָבַד'âbad · to perishH6
• my peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• they returnשׁוּבshûb · to return: turn backH7725
• not from their waysדֶּ֫רֶךְderek · way: conductH1870

Cross-references for Jeremiah 15:7

• 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;
• Jeremiah 51:2I will send strangers to Babylon who will scatter her and strip her land bare, for they will come against her from every side in the day of disaster.
• Psalms 1:4The wicked are not like this; instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.
• 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.
• Matthew 3:12His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn. But the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.”
• Jeremiah 9:21for Death has climbed through our windows; it has entered our fortresses, cutting off children from the streets, young men from the squares.
• Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, hand their children over to famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, their husbands slain by deadly disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
• Deuteronomy 28:18Your offspring will be cursed, and your land’s produce, the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks.
• Hosea 9:12Even if they raise children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!
• Ezekiel 24:21Say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your heart. Also, the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.
• Jeremiah 5:3Lord, don’t your eyes look for faithfulness? You have struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They made their faces harder than rock, and they refused to return.
• Jeremiah 8:4“You are to say to them: This is what the Lord says: Do people fall and not get up again? If they turn away, do they not return?
• Isaiah 9:13The people did not turn to him who struck them; they did not seek the Lord of Armies.
• Amos 4:10I sent plagues like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I caused the stench of your camp to fill your nostrils, yet you did not return to me. This is the Lord’s declaration.
• Zechariah 1:4Do not be like your ancestors; the earlier prophets proclaimed to them: This is what the Lord of Armies says: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to me — this is the Lord’s declaration.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 15:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7I will fan them with a fan - There is no pure grain; all is chaff. In the gates of the land - The places of public justice: and there it shall be seen that the judgments that have fallen upon them have been highly merited. And from these places of fanning they shall go out into their captivity.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7I will fan them … - Or, “I have winnowed them with a winnowing shovel.” The “gates of the land” mean the places by which men enter or leave it. As God winnows them they are driven out of the land through all its outlets in every direction. I will bereave - Rather, “I have bereaved, I have destroyed my people.” Omit “of children.” Since they return not … - Rather, “from their ways they have not returned.”Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-7The people heard the accusation that they had abandoned God and turned away from him before (Jeremiah 2:13), but they did not take it seriously. Although the Lord often gave them another chance to repent, their sin provoked him to enforce the curses of the Sinai covenant (Deuteronomy 27:15–26).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. fan--tribulation--from tribulum, a threshing instrument, which separates the chaff from the wheat (Mt 3:12). gates of the land--that is, the extreme bounds of the land through which the entrance to and exit from it lie. Maurer translates, "I will fan," that is, cast them forth "to the gates of the land" (Na 3:13). "In the gates"; English Version draws the image from a man cleaning corn with a fan; he stands at the gate of the threshing-floor in the…Read the comment

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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