And he will take fortified cities which were to Judah and he will come even to Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 5:10 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 Go ye up upon her walls and destroy; and ye shall not make a completion: remove her twigs, for they are not to Jehovah. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Go up within [Jerusalem's] walls and destroy [her vines], but do not make a full and complete end. Trim away the tendrils [of her vines], for they are not the Lord's. American Standard Version (1901) Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Jehovah’s. Common English Bible Climb through her vineyards and ravage them, although not completely. Prune back her branches, because they aren’t the LORD’s. Catholic Public Domain Version Scale its walls and tear them down. But do not be willing to bring about its very end. Take away its plantings, for they are not the Lord's. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Scale down the walls thereof and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord's. |
And he will take fortified cities which were to Judah and he will come even to Jerusalem.
And he will bring against them the king of the Chaldeans, and he will kill their chosen with the sword in the house of the holy place, and he pitied not over young man and virgin, old man and the gray-headed: he gave all into his hand.
And I planted thee a vine of purple grapes, wholly a true seed: and how didst thou turn to me the removings of a strange vine?
Behold me sending, and I took all the families of the north, says Jehovah, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, my servant, and I brought them against this land and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and I devoted them to destruction, and I set them for a desolation and for a hissing, and for perpetual wastes.
For I am with thee, says Jehovah, to serve thee: for I will make a completion to all nations where I scattered thee there, but with thee I will not make a completion: and I corrected thee for judgment, and acquitting, I will not let thee go unpunished.
And the Chaldeans burnt the house of the king, and the house of the people, with fire, and they broke the walls of Jerusalem.
For thus said Jehovah, All the earth shall be a desert; and I will not make a completion.
Thou shalt not fear, O my servant Jacob, says Jehovah: for I am with thee; for I will make a completion among all nations where I thrust thee away there: and I will not make a completion with thee, and I will correct thee for judgment; and acquitting, I will not let thee go unpunished.
For acting faithlessly, the house of Israel and the house of Judah acted faithlessly against me, says Jehovah.
And also in those days, says Jehovah, I will not make with you a completion.
For these shall I not review? says Jehovah; and shalt not my soul be avenged upon a nation such as this?
And I left of them men of number, from the sword and from famine, and from death, so that they shall recount all their abominations among the nations where they went there; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Or I shall bring a sword upon that land, and I said, Sword, thou shalt pass through the land; and I cut off from it man and cattle.
And he will say; Call his name, Not my people: for ye are not my people, and I will not be to you.
Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah upon the sinning kingdom, and I destroyed it from the face of the earth; only that destroying, I will not destroy the house of Jacob, says Jehovah.
And the king, having heard, was angry, and having sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.