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Jeremiah 5:17 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 5 · verse 17
And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.Jeremiah 5:17 · King James Version
Jeremiah 5:17 in context
15Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
16Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
17And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
18Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
19And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- impoverishrâshashto demolishH7567 →
- daughtersbatha daughterH1323 →
- harvestqâtsîyrseveredH7105 →
- flockstsôʼna collective name for a flockH6629 →
- breadlechemfood , especially bread, or grainH3899 →
- herdsbâqârbeef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either genderH1241 →
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We may observe in these verses, as before, I. The sin of this people, upon which the commission signed against them is grounded. God disowns them and dooms them to destruction, Jer 5:10. But is there not a cause? Yes; for, 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-19