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

14Therefore, this is what the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies says: “Because the people are talking like this, my messages will flame out of your mouth and burn the people like kindling wood. 15O Israel, I will bring a distant nation against you,” says the Lord. “It is a mighty nation, an ancient nation, a people whose language you do not know, whose speech you cannot understand. Their weapons are deadly; their warriors are mighty. 17They will devour the food of your harvest; they will devour your sons and daughters. They will devour your flocks and herds; they will devour your grapes and figs. And they will destroy your fortified towns, which you think are so safe. 18“Yet even in those days I will not blot you out completely,” 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 5:9My enemies cannot speak a truthful word. Their deepest desire is to destroy others. Their talk is foul, like the stench from an open grave. Their tongues are filled with flattery.
• Isaiah 5:28Their arrows will be sharp and their bows ready for battle. Sparks will fly from their horses’ hooves, and the wheels of their chariots will spin like a whirlwind.
• Romans 3:13“Their talk is foul, like the stench from an open grave. Their tongues are filled with lies.” “Snake venom drips from 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
• Idolatry
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In the dictionaries

• Correction
• Deceit
• Quiver
• Exodus, the Book of
• 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