Jeremiah 10:24

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

22Listen! News is coming even now. The rumble of a great army is heard approaching from a land in the north. It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble, places where only jackals live. 23Lord, we know that people do not control their own destiny. It is not in their power to determine what will happen to them. Correct us, Lord, but only in due measure. Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing. 25Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. Vent it on the peoples who do not worship you. For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. They have completely destroyed them and left their homeland in utter ruin.

Jeremiah 10:24 word by word

יַסְּרֵ֥נִי יְהוָ֖ה אַךְ־בְּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט אַל־בְּאַפְּךָ֖ פֶּן־תַּמְעִטֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• O Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• correctיָסַרyâsar · to disciplineH3256
• me, but with judgmentמִשְׁפָּטmishpâţ · justiceH4941
• not in thine angerאַף'aph · face: angerH639
• lest thou bring me to nothingמָעַטmâ‛aţ · to diminishH4591

Cross-references for Jeremiah 10:24

• Jeremiah 30:11For I, the Lord, affirm that I will be with you and will rescue you. I will completely destroy all the nations where I scattered you. But I will not completely destroy you. I will indeed discipline you, but only in due measure. I will not allow you to go entirely unpunished.”
• Psalms 6:1Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger! Do not discipline me in your raging fury!
• Psalms 38:1O Lord, do not continue to rebuke me in your anger! Do not continue to punish me in your raging fury!
• Habakkuk 3:2Lord, I have heard the report of what you did; I am awed, Lord, by what you accomplished. In our time repeat those deeds; in our time reveal them again. But when you cause turmoil, remember to show us mercy!
• Job 6:18Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.
• Isaiah 40:23He is the one who reduces rulers to nothing; he makes the earth’s leaders insignificant.
• Isaiah 41:11Look, all who were angry at you will be ashamed and humiliated; your adversaries will be reduced to nothing and perish.

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

Topics related to Jeremiah 10:24

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Humility

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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