Jeremiah 5:15 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 5:15

Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.

BSB

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ASV

Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

KJV

Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Israel is not put here for the ten tribes, but for the whole house of Jacob, of which Judah was now the representative. Mighty - “permanent, enduring.” The word is the usual epithet of the rocks Num 24:21, and of ever-flowing streams Deu 21:4, Hebrew). It describes therefore a nation, whose empire is firm as a rock, and ever rolling onward like a mighty river. The epithet “ancient” refers simply to time. Whose laguage thou knowest not - This would render them more pitiless, as they would not understand their cries for mercy.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Israel - By these are meant Judah; for Israel were in captivity before: called the house of Israel, not only because they descended from Jacob, but because they were the chief of that stock.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

HENDERSON refers it to the original language of the Babylonians, which, he thinks, they brought with them from their native hills, akin to the Persic, not to the Aramaic, or any other Semitic tongue, the parent of the modern Kurd.

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הִנְנִ֣י	hi.Ni	here I	H2005 →
מֵבִיא֩	me.Vi'	[am] about to bring	H935 →
עֲלֵיכֶ֨ם	'a.lei.Khem	on you	H5921 →
גּ֧וֹי	Goy	a nation	H1471 →
מִמֶּרְחָ֛ק	mi.mer.Chak	from a distance	H4801 →
בֵּ֥ית	beit	O house of	H1004 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
נְאֻם־	ne.'um-	[the] utterance of	H5002 →
יְהֹוָ֑ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
גּ֣וֹי׀	Goy	[is] a nation	H1471 →
אֵיתָ֣ן	'ei.Tan	enduring	H386 →
ה֗וּא	Hu'	it	H1931 →
גּ֤וֹי	Goy	[is] a nation	H1471 →
מֵעוֹלָם֙	me.'o.Lam	from long ago	H5769 →
ה֔וּא	Hu'	it	H1931 →
גּ֚וֹי	Goy	a nation	H1471 →
לֹא־	lo'-	[which] not	H3808 →
תֵדַ֣ע	te.Da'	you know	H3045 →
לְשֹׁנ֔וֹ	le.sho.No	language its	H3956 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
תִשְׁמַ֖ע	tish.Ma'	you hear	H8085 →
מַה־	mah-	what?	H4100 →
יְדַבֵּֽר׃	ye.da.Ber	does it say	H1696 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 28:11
Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:49
  The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Corinthians 14:21
  It is written in the Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord.”
- Isaiah 33:19
  You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.
Through
Isaiah 33:19
You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.
leads to
- Isaiah 28:11
  Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
- Deuteronomy 28:49–50
  The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
Through
Deuteronomy 28:49
The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
leads to
- Lamentations 4:19
  Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.
Through
Isaiah 5:26
He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!
leads to
- Zechariah 10:8
  I will whistle for them to gather, for I have redeemed them; and they will be as numerous as they once were.
- Isaiah 7:18
  On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.

About Jeremiah

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

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Jeremiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Jeremiah