God’s Word Translation
Jeremiah 5:16
16Their arrow quivers are like open graves. They are all mighty warriors.
Jeremiah 5:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
- New International Version (NIV)Their quivers are like an open grave; all of them are mighty warriors.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Their quiver is like an open tomb; they are all mighty warriors.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Their quiver is like an open tomb; They are all mighty men.
Context of Jeremiah 5:16
14This is what the Lord God of Armies says: Because you’ve talked like this, I’m going to put my words in your mouth like a fire. These people will be like wood. My words will burn them up. 15Nation of Israel, I’m going to bring a nation from far away to attack you, declares the Lord. It is a nation that has lasted a long time. It is an ancient nation. You don’t know the language of this nation. You can’t understand what its people say. Their arrow quivers are like open graves. They are all mighty warriors. 17They will devour your harvest and your food. They will devour your sons and your daughters. They will devour your flocks and your cattle. They will devour your grapevines and your fig trees. With their swords they will destroy the fortified cities you trust. 18Yet, even in those days, declares the Lord, I won’t destroy all of you.
Read all of Jeremiah 5Jeremiah 5:16 word by word
אַשְׁפָּת֖וֹ כְּקֶ֣בֶר פָּת֑וּחַ כֻּלָּ֖ם גִּבּוֹרִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 5:16
- Psalms 5:9Nothing in their mouths is truthful. Destruction comes from their hearts. Their throats are open graves. They flatter with their tongues.
- Isaiah 5:28Their arrows are sharpened; all their bows are ready to shoot. Their horses’ hoofs are as hard as flint. Their chariot wheels are as quick as the wind.
- Romans 3:13Their throats are open graves. Their tongues practice deception. Their lips hide the venom of poisonous snakes.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 5:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16Their quiver is an open sepulcher - They are such exact archers as never to miss their mark; every arrow is sure to slay one man.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16Their quiver - See Jeremiah 4:29, note.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-18Verses 10-18 Multitudes are ruined by believing that God will not be so strict as his word says he will; by this artifice Satan undid mankind. Sinners are not willing to own any thing to be God's word, that tends to part them from, or to disquiet them in, their sins. Mocking and misusing the Lord's messengers, filled the measure of their iniquity. God can bring trouble upon us from places and causes very remote. He has mercy in store for his people…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16-17The well-trained and well-equipped Babylonian army treated their victims cruelly and destroyed everything valuable in the lands they conquered (see Habakkuk 1:6–10).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. open sepulchre--(Compare Psa 5:9). Their quiver is all-devouring, as the grave opened to receive the dead: as many as are the arrows, so many are the deaths.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 5
- 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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