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Jeremiah 10:25 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 10 · verse 25
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.Jeremiah 10:25 · King James Version
Jeremiah 10:25 in context
23O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
24O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
25Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- habitationnâvehat homeH5116 →
- familiesmishpâchâha familyH4940 →
- devouredʼâkalto eatH398 →
- consumedkâlâhto end, whether intransitive or transitivedH3615 →
- heathengôwya foreign nationH1471 →
- JacobYaʻăqôbJaakob, the Israelitish patriarchH3290 →
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In these verses, I. The prophet threatens, in God's name, the approaching ruin of Judah and Jerusalem, Jer 10:17, Jer 10:18. The Jews that continued in their own land, after some were carried into captivity, were very secure; they thought themselves inhabitants of a fortress;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-25