Jeremiah 10:24
in Jeremiah 10Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
O Jehovah, correct me, but in measure; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
KJV
O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
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This verse in Jeremiah 10
Commentary
9 notes on this verse(Verse 24, 25.) Rebuke me, O Lord, but with justice, not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing. Pour out your indignation on the nations that do not know you, and on the provinces (or generations) that have not invoked your name, for they have devoured Jacob and consumed his dwelling place, and they have scattered (or reduced to desolation) his glory (or pasture). We also read this passage in the psalm: O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger; do not discipline me in your wrath (Psalm 6:1; 38:1).
This site's exposition
a man’s way is not his own
on Jeremiah 10:23-25
The chapter closes with Jeremiah's prayer, “a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps”. The plea “Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice” asks for discipline without destruction. The last plea turns outward against the nations, “For they have devoured Jacob”.
This site's exposition
Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice
Jerome sets the prayer beside Psalm 6:1, where David asks the LORD to rebuke him without anger. Wesley reads it as the plea that punishment come in measure, as correction. Jeremiah speaks for the people.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
The inspired author knows the usefulness of discipline and understands that the Lord is exercising loving-kindness in applying it to human beings. This is the reason he asks to have a share in it. God exercises goodness in applying correction, and correction produces knowledge. Likewise …
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
Correct me - Seeing thou wilt punish us, let it be a correction only, not a destruction. Let it be in measure; in the midst of judgment remember mercy.
Let not any of their customs steal in among you (as they are apt to do insensibly) nor mingle themselves with your religion." Note, It ill becomes those that are taught of God to learn the way of the heathen, and to think of worshipping the true God with such rites and ceremonies as they used in the worship of their false gods.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — odd-straight-quotes
O Lord, correct me, but with judgment,....
Let it not be according to the desert of our sins, but according to the design of thy grace. Note, (1.) We cannot pray in faith that we may never be corrected, while we are conscious to ourselves that we need correction and deserve it, and know that as many as God loves he chastens. (2.) The great thing we should dread in affliction is the wrath of God.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Correct me, but with judgment - Let not the punishment be to the uttermost of the demerit of the offense; else we shall be brought to nothing - totally and irrecoverably ruined.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יַסְּרֵ֥נִי | yasereni | correct me | H3256 → | 43 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | O Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אַךְ־ | ʾakh- | only | H389 → | 161 times |
| בְּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט | bemishpat | in justice | H4941 → | 422 times |
| אַל־ | ʾal- | may not [it be] | H408 → | 724 times |
| בְּאַפְּךָ֖ | beapekha | in anger your | H639 → | 276 times |
| פֶּן־ | pen- | lest | H6435 → | 133 times |
| תַּמְעִטֵֽנִי׃ | tamiteni | you should diminish me | H4591 → | 22 times |
יַסְּרֵ֥נִיcorrect me
yasereniH3256 →43 times
יְהוָ֖הO Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אַךְ־only
ʾakh-H389 →161 times
בְּמִשְׁפָּ֑טin justice
bemishpatH4941 →422 times
אַל־may not [it be]
ʾal-H408 →724 times
בְּאַפְּךָ֖in anger your
beapekhaH639 →276 times
פֶּן־lest
pen-H6435 →133 times
תַּמְעִטֵֽנִי׃you should diminish me
tamiteniH4591 →22 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 38:1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
it leads to
- Isaiah 54:8
In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
- Psalms 6:1
O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
- Hebrews 12:5–11
And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
- Isaiah 54:8
Through
Psalms 6:1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
it leads to
- Psalms 38:1
O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
- Psalms 118:18
The LORD disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.
- Jeremiah 46:28
And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not…
- 1 Corinthians 11:31–32
Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.
- Isaiah 57:16
For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.
- Psalms 38:1
Where this verse is studied
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Studies1
About Jeremiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 119:34.