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 are like lusty, well-fed stallions. Each of them lusts after his neighbor’s wife. 9I will surely punish them for doing such things!” says the Lord. “I will surely bring retribution on such a nation as this!” The Lord commanded the enemy, “March through the vineyards of Israel and Judah and ruin them. But do not destroy them completely. Strip off their branches for these people do not belong to the Lord. 11For the nations of Israel and Judah have been very unfaithful to me,” says the Lord. 12“These people have denied what the Lord says. They have said, ‘That is not so! No harm will come to us. We will not experience war and famine.

Jeremiah 5:10 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Go ye upעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927
• upon her wallsשָׁרָהshârâh · vine-rowH8284
• and destroyשָׁחַתshâchath · to ruinH7843
• but makeעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
• not a full endכָּלָהkâlâh · consumptionH3617
• take awayסוּרsûr ώûr · to turn aside: turn asideH5493
• her battlementsנְטִישָׁהneţîyshâh · tendrilH5189
• not the Lord’sיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Jeremiah 5:10

• Jeremiah 6:4They will say, ‘Prepare to do battle against it! Come on! Let’s attack it at noon!’ But later they will say, ‘Oh, oh! Too bad! The day is almost over and the shadows of evening are getting long.
• Jeremiah 25:9So I, the Lord, affirm that I will send for all the peoples of the north and my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy this land, its inhabitants, and all the nations that surround it and make them everlasting ruins. I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn.
• Jeremiah 39:8The Babylonians burned down the royal palace, the temple of the Lord, and the people’s homes, and they tore down the wall of Jerusalem.
• Jeremiah 51:20“Babylon, you are my war club, my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. I used you to destroy kingdoms.
• 2 Kings 24:2The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets.
• 2 Chronicles 36:17He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered their young men in their temple. He did not spare young men or women, or even the old and aging. God handed everyone over to him.
• Isaiah 10:5Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.
• Isaiah 13:1This is a message about Babylon that God revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz:
• Ezekiel 9:5While I listened, he said to the others, “Go through the city after him and strike people down; do no let your eye pity nor spare anyone!
• Ezekiel 14:17“Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill both people and animals.
• Matthew 22:7The king was furious! He sent his soldiers, and they put those murderers to death and set their city on fire.
• Jeremiah 5:18Yet even then I will not completely destroy you,” says the Lord.
• Jeremiah 4:27All this will happen because the Lord said, “The whole land will be desolate; however, I will not completely destroy it.
• 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.”
• Jeremiah 46:28I, the Lord, tell you not to be afraid, you descendants of Jacob, my servant, for I am with you. Though I completely destroy all the nations where I scatter you, 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.”
• Ezekiel 12:16But I will let a small number of them survive the sword, famine, and pestilence, so that they can confess all their abominable practices to the nations where they go. Then they will 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