Jeremiah 5:16

Jeremiah 5:16 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
• New International Version (NIV)Their quivers are like an open grave; all of them are mighty warriors.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Their quiver is like an open tomb; they are all mighty warriors.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Their quiver is like an open tomb; They are all mighty men.

Context of Jeremiah 5:16

14Because of that, the Lord, the God who rules over all, said to me, “Because these people have spoken like this, I will make the words that I put in your mouth like fire. And I will make this people like wood which the fiery judgments you speak will burn up.” 15The Lord says, “Listen, nation of Israel! I am about to bring a nation from far away to attack you. It will be a nation that was founded long ago and has lasted for a long time. It will be a nation whose language you will not know. Its people will speak words that you will not be able to understand. All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave. 17They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in. 18Yet even then I will not completely destroy you,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:16 word by word

אַשְׁפָּת֖וֹ כְּקֶ֣בֶר פָּת֑וּחַ כֻּלָּ֖ם גִּבּוֹרִֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Their quiverאַשְׁפָּה'ashpâh · quiverH827
• as an openפָּתַחpâthach · to openH6605
• sepulchreקֶ֫בֶרqeber qibrâh · graveH6913
• all mighty menגִּבּוֹרgibbôr gibbôr · mighty manH1368

Cross-references for Jeremiah 5:16

• Psalms 5:9For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.
• Isaiah 5:28Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are prepared. The hooves of their horses are hard as flint, and their chariot wheels are like a windstorm.
• Romans 3:13“Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.”

Commentaries on Jeremiah 5:16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16Their quiver is an open sepulcher - They are such exact archers as never to miss their mark; every arrow is sure to slay one man.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16Their quiver - See Jeremiah 4:29, 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. 16-17The well-trained and well-equipped Babylonian army treated their victims cruelly and destroyed everything valuable in the lands they conquered (see Habakkuk 1:6–10).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. open sepulchre--(Compare Psa 5:9). Their quiver is all-devouring, as the grave opened to receive the dead: as many as are the arrows, so many are the deaths.Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 5:16

• Backsliders
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In the dictionaries

• Correction
• Deceit
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• Jeremiah (2)

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