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Jeremiah 16:10

in Jeremiah 16

When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against Jehovah our God?

KJV

And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?

This verse in Jeremiah 16

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Note, It is amazing to see how hardly sinners are brought to justify God and judge themselves when they are in trouble, and to own the iniquity and the sin that have procured them the trouble.

This site's exposition

When you tell these people all these things

on Jeremiah 16:10-13

When the people ask “What is our guilt”, the answer indicts the present generation beyond the fathers, “you have done more evil than your fathers”. The sentence fits the sin, exile to a land they have not known, where they will serve other gods day and night.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 9 onwards) For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will remove from this place in your sight and in your days the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, 'Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?'

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these words,....

The words behind it

29 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְהָיָ֗הand it will be

    vehayahH1961 →3559 times

  • כִּ֤יthat

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • תַגִּיד֙you will tell

    tagidH5046 →370 times

  • לָעָ֣םto the people

    laamH5971 →1873 times

  • הַזֶּ֔ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • אֵ֥ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַדְּבָרִ֖יםthe words

    hadevarimH1697 →1440 times

  • הָאֵ֑לֶּה<the> these

    haelehH428 →746 times

  • וְאָמְר֣וּand they will say

    veameruH559 →5305 times

  • אֵלֶ֗יךָto you

    ʾeleikhaH413 →5510 times

  • עַל־concerning

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • מֶה֩what?

    mehH4100 →752 times

  • דִבֶּ֨רhas he spoken

    diberH1696 →1141 times

  • יְהוָ֤הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • עָלֵ֙ינוּ֙on us

    ʾaleinuH5921 →5755 times

  • אֵ֣ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָרָעָ֤הthe calamity

    haraahH7451 →662 times

  • הַגְּדוֹלָה֙<the> great

    hagedolahH1419 →526 times

  • הַזֹּ֔את<the> this

    hazotH2063 →603 times

  • וּמֶ֤הand what?

    umehH4100 →752 times

  • עֲוֹנֵ֙נוּ֙[is] iniquity our

    ʾavonenuH5771 →233 times

  • וּמֶ֣הand what?

    umehH4100 →752 times

  • חַטָּאתֵ֔נוּ[is] sin our

    chatatenuH2403 →295 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • חָטָ֖אנוּwe have sinned

    chatanuH2398 →238 times

  • לַֽיהוָ֥הto Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃God our

    ʾeloheinuH430 →2601 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Hosea 12:8

    And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”

    it leads to

    • Revelation 3:17

      You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

    • Psalms 62:10

      Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 5:19

    And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 9:8–9

      And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land…

    • Deuteronomy 28:47–48

      Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,

    • Jeremiah 22:8–9

      And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’

    • Jeremiah 16:13

      So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 13:22

    And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.

    it leads to

    • Nahum 3:5

      “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.

    • Jeremiah 16:10–11

      When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have…

About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.