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?
• 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?
• New Living Translation (NLT)“Who will feel sorry for you, Jerusalem? Who will weep for you? Who will even bother to ask how you are?

Context of Jeremiah 15:5

3I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. 4And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem. "Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will grieve for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare? 6You have rejected me, declares the Lord; you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you— I am weary of relenting. 7I 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.

Jeremiah 15:5 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• For who shall have pityחָמַלchâmal · to spareH2550
• upon thee, O Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵםyerûshâlaim yerûshâlayim · JerusalemH3389
• or who shall bemoanנוּדnûd · to wanderH5110
• thee? or who shall go asideסוּרsûr ώûr · to turn aside: turn asideH5493
• to askשָׁאַלshâ'al shâ'êl · to askH7592
• how thou doestשָׁלוֹםshâlôm shâlôm · peace: well-beingH7965

Cross-references for Jeremiah 15:5

• Jeremiah 16:5"For thus says the Lord: Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament or grieve for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, my steadfast love and mercy, declares the Lord.
• Jeremiah 21:7Afterward, declares the Lord, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people in this city who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword. He shall not pity them or spare them or have compassion.'
• Job 19:21Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
• Psalms 69:20Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
• Isaiah 51:19These two things have happened to you— who will console you?— devastation and destruction, famine and sword; who will comfort you?
• Lamentations 1:12"Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the Lord inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.
• Lamentations 2:15All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag 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 3:7And all who look at you will shrink from you and say, "Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her?" Where shall I seek comforters for you?
• Exodus 18:7Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. And they asked each other of their welfare and went into the tent.
• Judges 18:15And they turned aside there and came to the house of the young Levite, at the home of Micah, and asked him about his welfare.
• 1 Samuel 10:4And they will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall accept from their hand.
• 1 Samuel 17:22And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers.
• 1 Samuel 25:5So David sent ten young men. And David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal and 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