Jeremiah 10:24

Jeremiah 10:24 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
• New International Version (NIV)Discipline me, Lord, but only in due measure— not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Correct me, O Lord, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
• New King James Version (NKJV)O Lord, correct me, but with justice; Not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.

Context of Jeremiah 10:24

22Listen! We have heard the news! There is the noise of a great army in the north. It is marching towards us! It is coming to attack the towns of Judah. It will make them heaps of stones. Only wild animals will live in them. 23Lord, I know that nobody controls their own life. Nobody can decide what will happen to them. Lord, teach us what is right, but do it carefully. Please do not punish us in your anger. That would be the end of us. 25Instead, be angry with the nations that do not respect you. Be angry with the people who do not worship you. Those are the people who have destroyed Jacob's descendants. They have killed our people. They have destroyed our land and our homes.’

Jeremiah 10:24 word by word

יַסְּרֵ֥נִי יְהוָ֖ה אַךְ־בְּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט אַל־בְּאַפְּךָ֖ פֶּן־תַּמְעִטֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• O Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• correctיָסַרyâsar · to disciplineH3256
• me, but with judgmentמִשְׁפָּטmishpâţ · justiceH4941
• not in thine angerאַף'aph · face: angerH639
• lest thou bring me to nothingמָעַטmâ‛aţ · to diminishH4591

Cross-references for Jeremiah 10:24

• Jeremiah 30:11The Lord says, ‘I am with you and I will save you. I have sent you away to live in foreign lands. That was the punishment that you deserved. I will completely destroy the nations where I sent you to live. But I will not completely destroy you. I will certainly punish you, but only as much as you deserve.’
• Psalms 6:1Lord, when you are angry, please do not punish me.
• Psalms 38:1Lord, when you are angry, please do not punish me.
• Habakkuk 3:2Lord, I have heard the report about you. I see the things that you have done, Lord, and I respect your power. Please do great things like that again. Do them again now for us to see. When you are angry with us, please still remember to be kind!
• Job 6:18Travellers leave the road to look for water. They find no water to drink and they die in the desert.
• Isaiah 40:23He takes away the power of kings. He causes the rulers of the world to be useless.
• Isaiah 41:11Listen to this! Everyone who has been angry with you will now become completely ashamed. Those who have attacked you will disappear and die.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 10:24

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24Correct me, but with judgment - Let not the punishment be to the uttermost of the demerit of the offense; else we shall be brought to nothing - totally and irrecoverably ruined.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19-25Verses 19-25 The lamentation of the daughter of Zion, the Jewish Church, at the devastation of the land, and her humble prayer to God for mercy. Jeremiah 10:19 Grievous - Rather, “mortal,” i. e., fatal, incurable. A grief - Or, “my grief.” Jeremiah 10:20 tabernacle - i. e., “tent.” Jerusalem laments that her tent is plundered and her children carried into exile, and so “are not,” are dead Matthew 2:18, either absolutely, or dead to her in the remote land…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-25Verses 17-25 The Jews who continued in their own land, felt secure. But, sooner or later, sinners will find all things as the word of God has declared, and that its threatenings are not empty terrors. Submission will support the believer under every grief allotted to him; but what can render the load of Divine vengeance easy to be borne by those who fall under it in sullen despair? Those cannot expect to prosper, who do not, by faith and prayer, take God…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 23-25Jeremiah asked the Lord to unleash His anger not only on Judah but also on the nations that destroyed Israel. See Isaiah 26:9–11 and Habakkuk 1:17. These other kingdoms were so brutal that they turned the countryside into a barren wasteland. Jeremiah 10:25 quotes Psalm 79:6–7.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 24-2524-25. Since I (my nation) must be corrected (justice requiring it because of the deep guilt of the nation), I do not deprecate all chastisement, but pray only for moderation in it (Jr 30:11; Psa 6:1; 38:1); and that the full tide of Thy fury may be poured out on the heathen invaders for their cruelty towards Thy people. Psa 79:6, 7, a psalm to be referred to the time of the captivity, its composer probably repeated this from Jeremiah. The imperative…Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 10:24

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Humility

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Commentaries on Jeremiah 10

• 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