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Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
Jeremiah 10:25 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
  • KJV Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
  • NKJV Pour out Your fury on the Gentiles, who do not know You, And on the families who do not call on Your name; For they have eaten up Jacob, Devoured him and consumed him, And made his dwelling place desolate.
  • NASB Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You, And on the families who do not call upon Your name; For they have devoured Jacob; They have devoured him and consumed him, And have laid waste his settlement.
  • NLT Pour out your wrath on the nations that refuse to acknowledge you— on the peoples that do not call upon your name. For they have devoured your people Israel; they have devoured and consumed them, making the land a desolate wilderness.

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Quick answer

Jeremiah asks God to pour out wrath on the nations that do not know Him and have devoured Jacob. He appeals for justice against those who oppress God's people.

Overview

The prayer turns to the nations who do not call on God's name and have consumed and ruined Jacob, asking that God's wrath fall upon them. While Judah deserves discipline, the instruments of judgment will themselves be held accountable for their cruelty. The verse upholds God's justice over all peoples and anticipates the final reckoning in which the Lord vindicates His people and judges the world in righteousness through Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • Ps 79:6–7Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
  • Jer 8:16The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.
  • Ps 14:4Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
  • Job 18:21Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
  • Jer 50:7All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
  • 2 Th 1:8in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
  • Ezek 25:6–8For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you clapped your hands and stomped your feet and rejoiced over the land of Israel with a heart full of contempt,
  • Jer 50:17Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
  • Zeph 1:6and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
  • 1 Th 4:5not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
  • Ps 27:2When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
  • Zech 1:15but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’
  • Obad 1:10–16Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
  • Ezek 35:5–10Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,
  • Isa 64:7No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
  • 1 Cor 15:34Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.
  • Zeph 3:8Therefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation—all My burning anger. For all the earth will be consumed by the fire of My jealousy.
  • John 17:25Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.
  • Acts 17:23For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
  • Isa 43:22But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.
  • Jer 51:34–35“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
  • Lam 2:22You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.

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Christ at the center

Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.

How Jeremiah 10:25 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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