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Jeremiah 10:24
24Correct me, O Lord, but please be fair. Don’t correct me when you’re angry. Otherwise, you’ll reduce me to nothing.
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
22The report has arrived. A tremendous uproar is coming from the land of the north. Its army will destroy Judah’s cities and make them homes for jackals. 23O Lord, I know that the way humans act is not under their control. Humans do not direct their steps as they walk. Correct me, O Lord, but please be fair. Don’t correct me when you’re angry. Otherwise, you’ll reduce me to nothing. 25Pour out your fury on the nations who don’t know you and on people who don’t worship you. They have devoured the descendants of Jacob. They have devoured them completely. They have destroyed their homes.
Read all of Jeremiah 10Jeremiah 10:24 word by word
יַסְּרֵ֥נִי יְהוָ֖ה אַךְ־בְּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט אַל־בְּאַפְּךָ֖ פֶּן־תַּמְעִטֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 10:24
- Jeremiah 30:11I am with you, and I will rescue you,” declares the Lord. “I will completely destroy all the nations where I scattered you, but I will not completely destroy you. I will correct you with justice. I won’t let you go entirely unpunished.
- Psalms 6:1O Lord, do not punish me in your anger or discipline me in your rage.
- Psalms 38:1O Lord, do not angrily punish me or discipline me in your wrath.
- Habakkuk 3:2Lord, I have heard the report about you. Lord, I fear your work. In the course of the years, renew it. In the course of the years, reveal it. In all this chaos, remember to be merciful.
- Job 6:18They change their course. They go into a wasteland and disappear.
- Isaiah 40:23He makes rulers unimportant and makes earthly judges worth nothing.
- Isaiah 41:11“Everyone who is angry with you will be ashamed and disgraced. Those who oppose you will be reduced to nothing and disappear.
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
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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
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