New American Standard Bible 1995
Jeremiah 15:7
7I will 1winnow them with a winnowing fork At the gates of the land; I will 2bereave them of children, I will destroy My people; 3They did not 4repent of their ways.
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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)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.
- 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.
Context of Jeremiah 15:7
5“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! I 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. 8Their widows will be more numerous before Me Than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man, A destroyer at noonday; I will suddenly bring down on her Anguish and dismay. 9She who bore seven sons pines away; Her breathing is labored. Her sun has set while it was yet day; She has been shamed and humiliated. So I will give over their survivors to the sword Before their enemies,” declares the Lord.
Read all of Jeremiah 15Jeremiah 15:7 word by word
וָאֶזְרֵ֥ם בְּמִזְרֶ֖ה בְּשַׁעֲרֵ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ שִׁכַּ֤לְתִּי אִבַּ֙דְתִּי֙ אֶת־עַמִּ֔י מִדַּרְכֵיהֶ֖ם לוֹא־שָֽׁבוּ׃Read the interlinear
- winnowזָרָהzârâh · to scatterH2219
- forkמִזְרֶהmizreh · pitchforkH4214
- At the gatesשַׁ֫עַרsha‛ar · gateH8179
- of the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
- bereaveשָׁכֹלshâkôl · be bereavedH7921
- I will destroyאָבַד'âbad · to perishH6
- My peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
- repentשׁוּבshûb · to return: turn backH7725
- of their waysדֶּ֫רֶךְderek · way: conductH1870
Cross-references for Jeremiah 15:7
- Jeremiah 4:11In that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A scorching wind from the bare heights in the wilderness in the direction of the daughter of My people--not to winnow and not to cleanse,
- Jeremiah 51:2I will dispatch foreigners to Babylon that they may winnow her And may devastate her land; For on every side they will be opposed to her In the day of her calamity.
- Psalms 1:4The wicked are not so, But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
- Isaiah 41:16You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, And the storm will scatter them; But you will rejoice in the Lord, You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
- Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- Jeremiah 9:21For death has come up through our windows; It has entered our palaces To cut off the children from the streets, The young men from the town squares.
- Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, give their children over to famine And deliver them up to the power of the sword; And let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death, Their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
- Deuteronomy 28:18“Cursed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.
- Hosea 9:12Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them until not a man is left. Yes, woe to them indeed when I depart from them!
- Ezekiel 24:21‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I am about to profane My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes and the delight of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.
- Jeremiah 5:3O Lord, do not Your eyes look for truth? You have smitten them, But they did not weaken; 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, “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not repent?
- Isaiah 9:13Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them, Nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.
- Amos 4:10“I sent a plague among you after the manner of Egypt; I slew your young men by the sword along with your captured horses, And I made the stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils; Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.
- Zechariah 1:4“Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Return now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.”’ But they did not listen or give heed 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
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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
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