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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.
Jeremiah 5:10 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB “Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh’s.
  • KJV 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.
  • NKJV “Go up on her walls and destroy, But do not make a complete end. Take away her branches, For they are not the Lord’s.
  • NASB ¶“Go up through her vine rows and destroy, But do not execute a complete destruction; Strip away her branches, For they are not the Lord’s.
  • NLT “Go down the rows of the vineyards and destroy the grapevines, leaving a scattered few alive. Strip the branches from the vines, for these people do not belong to the Lord.

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Quick answer

David grows ever greater because the Lord of Armies is with him. His success is credited wholly to God's presence.

Overview

The narrator sums up David's rise: he became greater and greater, and the reason given is that the Lord, the God of hosts, was with him. David's strength flows not from his own ability but from divine favor. This theme runs through Scripture, that true greatness comes from God's accompanying presence, supremely fulfilled in Christ with whom the Father was always pleased.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Jer 4:27For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
  • Matt 22:7The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
  • Jer 39:8The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
  • Amos 9:8Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.
  • Hos 1:9And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.
  • Ezek 12:16But I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
  • Ps 78:61–62He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
  • 2 Kgs 24:2–4And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.
  • Jer 7:4–12Do not trust in deceptive words, chanting: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
  • Isa 13:1–5This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
  • Jer 46:28And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
  • Jer 25:9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
  • Ezek 14:17Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and beast,
  • Ezek 9:5–7And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!
  • Isa 10:5–7Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
  • Jer 6:4–6‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.
  • Jer 51:20–23“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
  • Jer 30:11For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
  • Jer 5:18“Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you.
  • 2 Chr 36:17So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,

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  • VideoBibleProject — Jeremiah videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on JeremiahMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

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 5:10 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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