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“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.
Jeremiah 5:10 · New Living Translation
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.
  • BSB 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.
  • 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.

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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 Yahweh says, “The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.
  • Matt 22:7When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
  • Jer 39:8The Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
  • Amos 9:8Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” says Yahweh.
  • Hos 1:9He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
  • Ezek 12:16But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they will know that I am Yahweh.’”
  • Ps 78:61–62and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.
  • 2 Kgs 24:2–4Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
  • Jer 7:4–12Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’
  • Isa 13:1–5The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
  • Jer 46:28Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says Yahweh; “for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven 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.”
  • Jer 25:9behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
  • Ezek 14:17“Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;’
  • Ezek 9:5–7To the others he said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him, and strike. Don’t let your eye spare, neither have pity.
  • Isa 10:5–7Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
  • Jer 6:4–6“Prepare war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
  • Jer 51:20–23“You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms.
  • 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.”
  • Jer 5:18“But even in those days,” says Yahweh, “I will not make a full end with you.
  • 2 Chr 36:17Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed. He gave them all into his hand.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Jeremiah videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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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 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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