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Jeremiah 15:7

I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.

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ASV

And I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them of children, I have destroyed my people; they returned not from their ways.

KJV

And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וָאֶזְרֵ֥םva.'ez.Remand I have winnowed themH2219 →
בְּמִזְרֶ֖הbe.miz.Rehwith a winnowing scoopH4214 →
בְּשַׁעֲרֵ֣יbe.sha.'a.Reiin [the] gates ofH8179 →
הָאָ֑רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776 →
שִׁכַּ֤לְתִּיshi.Kal.tiI have made childlessH7921 →
אִבַּ֙דְתִּי֙'i.Bad.tiI have destroyedH6 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
עַמִּ֔י'a.Mipeople myH5971 →
מִדַּרְכֵיהֶ֖םmi.dar.khei.Hemfrom ways theirH1870 →
לוֹא־lo'-notH3808 →
שָֽׁבוּ׃Sha.vuthey have turned awayH7725 →

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Luke 3:17His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”Jeremiah 51:2I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.Isaiah 9:13But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.Isaiah 41:16You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.Psalms 1:4Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.Jeremiah 8:4–5So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?Amos 4:10–12“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.Jeremiah 4:11–12At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;Deuteronomy 28:41You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.Hosea 9:12–17Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!Ezekiel 24:25And you, son of man, know that on the day I take away their stronghold, their pride and joy—the desire of their eyes which uplifted their souls—and their sons and daughters as well,Zechariah 1:4Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.Ezekiel 36:12Yes, I will cause My people Israel to walk upon you; they will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will no longer deprive them of their children.Deuteronomy 28:53–56Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.Deuteronomy 28:18The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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