Jeremiah 5:15

Modern English Version

Behold, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, says the Lord. It is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor do you understand what they say.

Cross References

Genesis 11:7

Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

Psalm 81:5

He made it a decree in Joseph when He went throughout the land of Egypt. I heard a language that I had not known:

Isaiah 28:11

For with stammering lips and foreign tongue He will speak to this people,

Isaiah 29:3

I will encamp against you all around, and will lay siege against you with a mound, and I will raise forts against you.

Isaiah 29:6

You shall be punished from the Lord of Hosts with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.

Isaiah 33:19

You shall not see a fierce people any more, a people of unintelligible speech which no one comprehends, of a stammering tongue which no one understands.

Isaiah 39:3

Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon.”

Isaiah 5:26

He will lift up a banner to the nations from afar and will hiss at them from the ends of the earth; and behold, they shall come speedily and swiftly.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

Jeremiah 1:15

For behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord. And they will come and they will set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 2:26

As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed. They, their kings, their officials, and their priests, and their prophets

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations; I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 4:16

“Report it to the nations, now!” Indeed, proclaim against Jerusalem: “Besiegers come from a far country, and lift their voices against the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 5:11

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against Me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 6:22

Thus says the Lord: Behold, a people comes from the north country, and a great nation will be raised from the remote parts of the earth.

Jeremiah 9:26

Egypt, Judah, Edom, the Ammonites, Moab, and all who dwell in the wilderness who clip the hair on their temples, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby you have transgressed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, O house of Israel?

Daniel 1:4

youths in whom was no blemish, who were handsome and skillful in every branch of wisdom and gifted with understanding and discerning knowledge, and such as had ability in them to serve in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.

Daniel 7:7

After this I saw in the visions at night, and behold, there was a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceedingly strong. And it had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the rest with its feet. And it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.

Amos 6:14

Watch: I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, says the Lord, the God of Hosts, and they will oppress you from Lebo Hamath to the Wadi Arabah.

Habakkuk 3:16

I heard, and my body trembled; my lips quivered at the sound; rottenness entered my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet I will wait quietly for the day when calamity comes on the people invading us.

1 Corinthians 14:21

In the law it is written: “With men of other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people; but even then they will not hear Me,” says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A nation that you do not know will consume the produce of your land and all your labors, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed all the time.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,