Jeremiah 5:10

Jeremiah 5:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord’s.
• New International Version (NIV)“Go through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not destroy them completely. Strip off her branches, for these people do not belong to the Lord.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Go up through her vine rows and destroy, but make not a full end; strip away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Go up on her walls and destroy, But do not make a complete end. Take away her branches, For they are not the Lord’s.

Context of Jeremiah 5:10

8They were well-fed lusty horses, Each one neighing after his neighbor’s wife. 9Shall I not punish these people,” declares the Lord, “And on a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself? “Go up through her vine rows and destroy, But do not execute a complete destruction; Strip away her branches, For they are not the Lord’s. 11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah Have dealt very treacherously with Me,” declares the Lord. 12They have lied about the Lord And said, “Not He; Misfortune will not come on us, And we will not see sword or famine.

Jeremiah 5:10 word by word

עֲל֤וּ בְשָׁרוֹתֶ֙יהָ֙ וְשַׁחֵ֔תוּ וְכָלָ֖ה אַֽל־תַּעֲשׂ֑וּ הָסִ֙ירוּ֙ נְטִ֣ישׁוֹתֶ֔יהָ כִּ֛י ל֥וֹא לַיהוָ֖ה הֵֽמָּה׃Read the interlinear

• Goעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927
• and destroyשָׁחַתshâchath · to ruinH7843
• But do not executeעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
• a completeכָּלָהkâlâh · consumptionH3617
• Stripסוּרsûr ώûr · to turn aside: removeH5493
• her branchesנְטִישָׁהneţîyshâh · tendrilH5189
• For they are not the Lord’sיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Jeremiah 5:10

• Jeremiah 6:4Prepare war against her; Arise, and let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the day declines, For the shadows of the evening lengthen!
• Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
• Jeremiah 39:8The Chaldeans also burned with fire the king’s palace and the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
• Jeremiah 51:20He says, “You are My war-club, My weapon of war; And with you I shatter nations, And with you I destroy kingdoms.
• 2 Kings 24:2The Lord sent against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans, bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites. So He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which He had spoken through His servants the prophets.
• 2 Chronicles 36:17Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand.
• Isaiah 10:5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,
• Isaiah 13:1The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
• Ezekiel 9:5But to the others He said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him and strike; do not let your eye have pity and do not spare.
• Ezekiel 14:17Or if I should bring a sword on that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass through the country and cut off man and beast from it,’
• Matthew 22:7But the king was enraged, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire.
• Jeremiah 5:18“Yet even in those days,” declares the Lord, “I will not make you a complete destruction.
• Jeremiah 4:27For thus says the Lord, “The whole land shall be a desolation, Yet I will not execute a complete destruction.
• Jeremiah 30:11For I am with you,’ declares the Lord, ‘to save you; For I will destroy completely all the nations where I have scattered you, Only I will not destroy you completely. But I will chasten you justly And will by no means leave you unpunished.’
• Jeremiah 46:28O Jacob My servant, do not fear,” declares the Lord, “For I am with you. For I will make a full end of all the nations Where I have driven you, Yet I will not make a full end of you; But I will correct you properly And by no means leave you unpunished.”
• Ezekiel 12:16But I will spare a few of them from the sword, the famine and the pestilence that they may tell all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the Lord.”

Commentaries on Jeremiah 5:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Go ye up upon her walls - This is the permission and authority given to the Chaldeans to pillage Jerusalem. Take away her battlements - Some translate נטישות netishoth, branches; others, vines. Destroy the branches, cut down the stem; but do not damage the root. Leave so many of the people that the state may be regenerated. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic, read, "Leave her foundations, for they are the Lord's;" and this agrees with "Destroy, but make…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Her walls - It is Possible that not the city walls, but those of a vineyard are meant. Judaea is God‘s vineyard Isaiah 5:1-7, and God permits the enemy to enter the vineyard to destroy her. Battlements - tendrils. The tendrils and branches of Judah‘s vine are given up to ruin, but not the stock. See Isaiah 6:13 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. 10-13The Lord issued a decree to destroy Judah’s vineyards, likely symbolizing Judah itself (see Isaiah 5:1–7; 27:2–6). The people ignored the Lord. They did not belong to him as his children, and he could not ignore their betrayal through idol worship (Jeremiah 3:6; 4:27; 7:27).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. Abrupt apostrophe to the Babylonians, to take Jerusalem, but not to destroy the nation utterly (see on Jr 4:27). battlements--rather, tendrils [Maurer]: the state being compared to a vine (Jr 12:10), the stem of which was to be spared, while the tendrils (the chief men) were to be removed.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