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?
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will grieve for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
• 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?

Context of Jeremiah 15:5

3I will appoint over them four kinds of doom,” declares the Lord: “the sword to slay, the dogs to drag off, and the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. 4I will make them an object of horror among all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem. “Indeed, who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, Or who will mourn for you, Or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare? 6You who have forsaken Me,” declares the Lord, “You keep going backward. So I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you; I am tired of relenting! 7I will winnow them with a winnowing fork At the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy My people; They did not repent of their ways.

Jeremiah 15:5 word by word

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

• Indeedכִּיkîy · forH3588
• whoמִיmîy · who?H4310
• will haveחָמַלchâmal · to spareH2550
• on you, O Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵםyerûshâlaim yerûshâlayim · JerusalemH3389
• mournנוּדnûd · to wanderH5110
• will turnסוּרsûr ώûr · to turn aside: turn asideH5493
• asideסוּרsûr ώûr · to turn aside: turn asideH5493
• to askשָׁאַלshâ'al shâ'êl · to askH7592
• about your welfareשָׁלוֹםshâlôm shâlôm · peace: well-beingH7965

Cross-references for Jeremiah 15:5

• Jeremiah 16:5For thus says the Lord, “Do not enter a house of mourning, or go to lament or to console them; for I have withdrawn My peace from this people,” declares the Lord, “My lovingkindness and compassion.
• Jeremiah 21:7Then afterwards,” declares the Lord, “I will give over Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people, even those who survive in this city from the pestilence, the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their foes and into the hand of those who seek their lives; and he will strike them down with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them nor have pity nor compassion.”’
• Job 19:21Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me.
• Psalms 69:20Reproach has broken my heart and I am so sick. And I looked for sympathy, but there was none, And for comforters, but I found none.
• Isaiah 51:19These two things have befallen you; Who will mourn for you? The devastation and destruction, famine and sword; How shall I comfort you?
• Lamentations 1:12“Is it nothing to all you who pass this way? Look and see if there is any pain like my pain Which was severely dealt out to me, Which the Lord inflicted on the day of His fierce anger.
• Lamentations 2:15All who pass along the way Clap their hands in derision at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem, “Is this the city of which they said, ‘The perfection of beauty, A joy to all the earth’?”
• Nahum 3:7And it will come about that all who see you Will shrink from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated! Who will grieve for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”
• Exodus 18:7Then Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and he bowed down and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare and went into the tent.
• Judges 18:15They turned aside there and came to the house of the young man, the Levite, to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
• 1 Samuel 10:4and they will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you will accept from their hand.
• 1 Samuel 17:22Then David left his baggage in the care of the baggage keeper, and ran to the battle line and entered in order to greet his brothers.
• 1 Samuel 25:5So David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, visit 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