Jeremiah 15:5

Jeremiah 15:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will grieve for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
• New King James Version (NKJV)“For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Or who will bemoan you? Or who will turn aside to ask how you are doing?
• New Living Translation (NLT)“Who will feel sorry for you, Jerusalem? Who will weep for you? Who will even bother to ask how you are?

Context of Jeremiah 15:5

3“I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” declares the Lord, “the sword to kill and the dogs to drag away and the birds and the wild animals to devour and destroy. 4I will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem. “Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will stop to ask how you are? 6You have rejected me,” declares the Lord. “You keep on backsliding. So I will reach out and destroy you; I am tired of holding back. 7I 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.

Jeremiah 15:5 word by word

כִּ֠י מִֽי־יַחְמֹ֤ל עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וּמִ֖י יָנ֣וּד לָ֑ךְ וּמִ֣י יָס֔וּר לִשְׁאֹ֥ל לְשָׁלֹ֖ם לָֽךְ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For who shall have pityחָמַלchâmal · to spareH2550
• upon thee, O Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵםyerûshâlaim yerûshâlayim · JerusalemH3389
• or who shall bemoanנוּדnûd · to wanderH5110
• thee? or who shall go asideסוּרsûr ώûr · to turn aside: turn asideH5493
• to askשָׁאַלshâ'al shâ'êl · to askH7592
• how thou doestשָׁלוֹםshâlôm shâlôm · peace: well-beingH7965

Cross-references for Jeremiah 15:5

• Jeremiah 16:5For this is what the Lord says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal; do not go to mourn or show sympathy, because I have withdrawn my blessing, my love and my pity from this people,” declares the Lord.
• Jeremiah 21:7After that, declares the Lord, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the people in this city who survive the plague, sword and famine, into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who want to kill them. He will put them to the sword; he will show them no mercy or pity or compassion.’
• Job 19:21“Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
• Psalms 69:20Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.
• Isaiah 51:19These double calamities have come upon you— who can comfort you?— ruin and destruction, famine and sword— who can console you?
• Lamentations 1:12“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see. Is any suffering like my suffering that was inflicted on me, that the Lord brought on me in the day of his fierce anger?
• Lamentations 2:15All who pass your way clap their hands at you; they scoff and shake their heads at Daughter Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?”
• Nahum 3:7All who see you will flee from you and say, ‘Nineveh is in ruins—who will mourn for her?’ Where can I find anyone to comfort you?”
• Exodus 18:7So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and then went into the tent.
• Judges 18:15So they turned in there and went to the house of the young Levite at Micah’s place and greeted him.
• 1 Samuel 10:4They will greet you and offer you two loaves of bread, which you will accept from them.
• 1 Samuel 17:22David left his things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and asked his brothers how they were.
• 1 Samuel 25:5So he sent ten young men and said to them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel and greet him in my name.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 15:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Who shall go aside to ask how thou doest? - Perhaps there is not a more despised nor a more degraded people under the sun. Scarcely any one thinks himself called upon to do a kind office for a Jew. Their character is bad in society, and they are not at all solicitous to redeem it.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5These are rhetorical questions. The answer is "no one!"Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. go aside ... how thou doest--Who will turn aside (in passing by) to salute thee (to wish thee "peace")?Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 15:5

• Backsliders
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning

In the dictionaries

• Jerusalem
• Languish
• Rebuke
• Residue
• Revenge

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