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Jeremiah 37:9

in Jeremiah 37

This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, ‘The Chaldeans will go away for good,’ for they will not!

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Thus saith Jehovah, Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart.

KJV

Thus saith the Lord; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.

This verse in Jeremiah 37

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet

on Jeremiah 37:6-10

Pharaoh’s army “will go back to its own land of Egypt,” and the Chaldeans will return, capture the city, and burn it. The LORD names the city’s hope as self-deception: “Do not deceive yourselves.” In verse 10, even “wounded men” left in their tents would rise and burn the city.

This site's exposition

Do not deceive yourselves

Matthew Henry comments that even Satan could make no headway with people who refused to deceive themselves. So those who hoped Babylon had gone for good were their own deceivers. The prophets of verse 19 had fed that hope.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Thus saith the Lord, deceive not yourselves,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, Satan himself, though he is the great deceiver, could not deceive us if we did not deceive ourselves; and thus sinners are their own destroyers by being their own deceivers, of which this is an aggravation that they are so frequently warned of it and cautioned not to deceive themselves, and they have the word of God, the great design of which is to undeceive them.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • כֹּ֣ה׀thus

    kohH3541 →577 times

  • אָמַ֣רhe says

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • יְהוָ֗הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אַל־may not

    ʾal-H408 →724 times

  • תַּשִּׁ֤אוּyou deceive

    tashiuH5377 →16 times

  • נַפְשֹֽׁתֵיכֶם֙selves your

    nafshoteikhemH5315 →754 times

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • הָלֹ֛ךְcertainly <to go>

    halokhH1980 →1546 times

  • יֵלְכ֥וּthey will go

    yelekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • מֵעָלֵ֖ינוּfrom on <the> us

    mealeinuH5921 →5755 times

  • הַכַּשְׂדִּ֑יםthe Chaldeans

    hakasdimH3778 →80 times

  • כִּי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • לֹ֖אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יֵלֵֽכוּ׃they will go

    yelekhuH1980 →1546 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

    James 1:22

    Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

    it leads to

    • Romans 2:13

      For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.

    • Luke 6:46–48

      Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?

    • John 13:17

      If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

    • James 4:17

      Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.

    • 1 John 2:3

      By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.

  • Through

    2 Thessalonians 2:3

    Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.

    it leads to

    • Ephesians 5:6

      Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Matthew 24:4–6

      Jesus answered, “See to it that no one deceives you.

    • 1 John 2:18

      Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.

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 Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.