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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)I will winnow you like grain at the gates of your cities and take away the children you hold dear. I will destroy my own people, because they refuse to change their evil ways.

Context of Jeremiah 15:7

5"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. 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. 8I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly. 9She who bore seven has grown feeble; she has fainted away; her sun went down while it was yet day; she has been shamed and disgraced. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, declares the Lord."

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 4:11At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,
• Jeremiah 51:2and I will send to Babylon winnowers, and they shall winnow her, and they shall empty her land, when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.
• Psalms 1:4The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
• Isaiah 41:16you shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the Lord; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
• Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork 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 unquenchable fire."
• Jeremiah 9:21For death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.
• Jeremiah 18:21Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.
• Deuteronomy 28:18Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.
• Hosea 9:12Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!
• Ezekiel 24:21'Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.
• Jeremiah 5:3O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.
• Jeremiah 8:4"You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return?
• Isaiah 9:13The people did not turn to him who struck them, nor inquire of the Lord of hosts.
• Amos 4:10"I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, and carried away your horses, and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me," declares the Lord.
• Zechariah 1:4Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.' But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.

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

Topics related to Jeremiah 15:7

• Backsliders
• Fan
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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