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Jeremiah 5:11

in Jeremiah 5

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to Me,” declares the LORD.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah.

KJV

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the Lord.

This verse in Jeremiah 5

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Clement of Alexandria

The Instructor Book 1 · Written before 215.

Accusation is the censure of wrongdoers. This mode of instruction God employs by David, when he says, "The people whom I did not know served me, and when their ears heard they obeyed me. Sons of strangers came to me, and halted from their ways." And by Jeremiah: "And I gave her a divorce decree, but covenant-breaking Judah did not fear." And again: "And the house of Israel disregarded me. The house of Judah lied to the Lord."

This site's exposition

but do not finish them off

on Jeremiah 5:10-13

The command to destroy carries its own limit, “but do not finish them off”, the restraint 4:27 already named. The house of Israel and the house of Judah are named together as utterly unfaithful. Their false confidence speaks at verse 12, “He will not do anything”.

This site's exposition

the house of Israel and the house of Judah

Gill, following Abarbinel, takes the house of Israel as the ten tribes and the house of Judah as Judah and Benjamin. Both are named as utterly unfaithful. Their treachery is the reason the vineyard of verse 10 is stripped.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

proposed

(Vers. 10, 11.) Ascendite muros ejus (sive propugnacula) et dissipate: consummationem autem nolite facere. Auferte propagines ejus (sive sustentacula) quia non sunt Domini. Praevaricatione enim praevaricata est in me domus Israel, et domus Juda, dicit Dominus. Imperat gentibus, de quibus supra dixerat: Percussit eos leo de silva, lupus vastavit eos, et pardus in civitatibus eorum, ut ascendant muros Jerusalem, sive propugnacula, et dissipent eam: consummationem autem non faciant, ut salventur reliquiae, et sit qui annuntiet in gentibus gloriam Dei, severitatique miscetclementiam.

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,.... This is a reason why such orders are given to the army of the Chaldeans to ascend the walls of Jerusalem and destroy them; namely, the perfidy both of the ten tribes, signified by the house of Israel; so Abarbinel; and of the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, signified by the house of Judah; which was very great, and attended with aggravated circumstances; instances of it follow.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the L ORD , nor the judgment of their God. 5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the L ORD , and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

They forsook the worship of him, and therein violated their covenants with him; they revolted from him, and played the hypocrite with him. They have defied the judgments of God and given the lie to his threatenings in the mouth of his prophets,

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

Ascend upon its rows Heb. בשרותיה, an expression of a plain. Menahem (p.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Jeremiah 5:10:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
And [they] said, “It is not He” [The Targum renders:] Our good fortune does not come before Him.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Jeremiah 5:12:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

10 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.

  • כִּי֩for

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • בָג֨וֹדcertainly <to deal treacherously>

    vagodH898 →49 times

  • בָּגְד֜וּthey have dealt treacherously

    bageduH898 →49 times

  • בִּ֗יwith <the> me

    bi

  • בֵּ֧ית[the] house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֛לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וּבֵ֥יתand [the] house of

    uveitH1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוּדָ֖הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • נְאֻם־[the] utterance of

    neum-H5002 →376 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 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 6:7

    But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.

    it leads to

    • Hosea 5:7

      They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.

      Reached by 3 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 3:11

      “Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

    • Hosea 8:1

      Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

    • Jeremiah 9:6

      You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.

    • Job 31:33

      if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

  • Through

    Hosea 5:7

    They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.

    it leads to

    • Hosea 6:7

      But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 3:20

    But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 48:8

      You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.

  • Through

    Isaiah 48:8

    You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 58:3

      The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.

Where this verse is studied

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 Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor Book 1; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.