Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
Parallel translations
- KJV O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
- BSB Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
- NKJV O Lord, correct me, but with justice; Not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.
- NASB Correct me, Lord, but with justice; Not with Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
- NLT So correct me, Lord, but please be gentle. Do not correct me in anger, for I would die.
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Quick answer
Jeremiah asks God to correct him with justice and measure, not in anger that would destroy him. He pleads for tempered, restorative discipline.
Overview
The prophet, identifying with his people, prays for correction 'in measure' rather than in the full fury of wrath that would reduce him to nothing. He accepts the need for discipline while appealing to God's mercy. The verse models a believer's posture under God's chastening hand and foreshadows the gospel hope that, in Christ, God's people receive fatherly correction rather than condemning wrath.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Ps 38:1A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
- Ps 6:1For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.
- Jer 30:11For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”
- Isa 40:23who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.
- Job 6:18The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.
- Hab 3:2Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.
- Isa 41:11–12Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.
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