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Jeremiah 13:24
24The Lord says, ‘I will blow you away, as a hot desert wind blows away straw.
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
22You may ask, “Why are these things happening to me?” It is because of your many terrible sins. Like an adulteress, they have torn off your dress to make you ashamed. 23You have done evil things for a long time. So you cannot now start to do good things. Can anyone change the colour of his skin? Can a leopard remove the marks on its body? No! And you cannot change yourselves either.’ The Lord says, ‘I will blow you away, as a hot desert wind blows away straw. 25That is how I have decided to punish you. It is what you deserve because you have forgotten me. You have trusted in false gods. 26So I will cause you to be very ashamed, like a woman whose dress they have removed.
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וַאֲפִיצֵ֖ם כְּקַשׁ־עוֹבֵ֑ר לְר֖וּחַ מִדְבָּֽר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Jeremiah 13:24
- Leviticus 26:33God will push you out. He will send your people away to other countries. He will destroy your cities. And he will make your land a desert.
- Deuteronomy 4:27The Lord will send you out of that land to live among other nations. Only a few of you will continue to be alive.
- Deuteronomy 28:64If that happens, the Lord will send you away to live among many other nations, all over the world. There you will worship other gods. They are gods that people have made from wood and from stone. Neither you nor your ancestors have ever known those gods before.
- Deuteronomy 32:26I wanted to remove my people completely, so that nobody would ever remember them.
- Ezekiel 5:2Wait until all the days when you are lying on your side have finished. Take one part of your hair and burn it on the brick which has the picture of Jerusalem. Take another part and use a sword to cut it into small pieces. Let the pieces fall all around the brick which shows the city. Then take the third part and throw the hairs into the wind. I will run after them with a sword.
- Ezekiel 6:8But I will allow some of you to live. Those people will escape when the enemy army attacks. They will run away to live in foreign countries.
- Ezekiel 17:21All the brave soldiers in his army will die in the battle. The soldiers who escape will run away in all directions. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken this message.
- Luke 21:24At that time, enemies will fight God's people and kill many of them in war. They will take some of them away as prisoners to live in all the other countries. They will not be free to return home. People that are not Jews will destroy Jerusalem. They will rule here until it is time for them to stop.’
- Jeremiah 4:11The Lord will tell the people at that time, ‘A hot wind will blow from the hills in the desert. It will not be a little wind that blows chaff from wheat. It will be a strong storm that blows away the people that I love.
- Psalms 1:4But wicked people are as empty as chaff. The wind blows them away.
- Psalms 83:13God, blow them away like dust, like chaff that blows away in the wind!
- Isaiah 17:13But it does not matter how much noise they make. Those people may roar like powerful waves, but the Lord will shout at them to stop. Then they will run far away! They will run like the wind as it blows chaff across the hills. It will be like a strong storm that carries away dead weeds!
- Isaiah 41:16You will throw them into the air, and the wind will blow them away in all directions! You will be happy with what the Lord has done for you. You will boast that the Holy God of Israel is your God.
- Hosea 13:3So those people will soon disappear! They will quickly disappear like mist or dew in the morning. They will be like chaff that the wind blows away from a threshing floor. They will be like smoke that disappears out of an open window.
- Zephaniah 2:2The wind takes away the dry parts of a plant that covered the seed. It will be like that when I punish you. Before it is the time for me to punish you, look for me. Before this time is past, look for me. Look for me, before I become very, very angry with you. There will be a day when the Lord will be angry. Look for me, before that day. Yes, look for the Lord, all you people who want to make him happy. You have done what the Lord wants. Continue to do what is good. But do not think that you are great. Perhaps you will find a safe place on the day when the Lord is angry.
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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