KJV King James Version
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they [are] not the LORD’S.
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Jeremiah 5:10
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they [are] not the LORD’S.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.
WEB World English Bible
“Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh’s.
ASV American Standard Version
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Jehovah’s.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Go ye up on her walls, and destroy, And a completion make not, Turn aside her branches, for they are not Jehovah’s,
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 5
7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
8 They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
9 Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they [are] not the LORD’S.
11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
12 They have belied the LORD, and said, [It is] not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word [is] not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
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עֲל֤וּH5927 · a.lahto ascend: riseבְשָׁרוֹתֶ֙יהָ֙H8284 · sha.rahvine-rowוְשַׁחֵ֔תוּH7843 · sha.chatto ruinוְכָלָ֖הH3617 · ka.lahconsumptionאַֽל־H408 · alnotתַּעֲשׂ֑וּH6213 · a.sahto make: doהָסִ֙ירוּ֙H5493 · surto turn aside: removeנְטִ֣ישׁוֹתֶ֔יהָH5189 · ne.ti.shahtendrilכִּ֛יH3588 · kiforל֥וֹאH3808 · lonotלַיהוָ֖הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDהֵֽמָּה׃H1992 · hem.mahthey(masc.)
Cross-references
Jeremiah 4:27For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.Jeremiah 39:8And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.Amos 9:8Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD [are] upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.Hosea 1:9Then said [God], Call his name Loammi: for ye [are] not my people, and I will not be your [God].Matthew 22:7But when the king heard [thereof], he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.Psalm 78:61-62And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.Ezekiel 12:16But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.2 Kings 24:2-4And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.Isaiah 13:1-5The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.2 Chronicles 36:17Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave [them] all into his hand.Isaiah 10:5-7O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.Jeremiah 6:4-6Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.Jeremiah 46:28Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I [am] with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.Jeremiah 7:4-12Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are] these.Ezekiel 9:5-7And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:Jeremiah 30:11For I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.Jeremiah 51:20-23Thou [art] my battle axe [and] weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;Jeremiah 25:9Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
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