Jeremiah 10 · Verse 25

Jeremiah 10:25

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.
Jeremiah 10:25, King James Version

Jeremiah 10:25 in other translations

BSBPour 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.
WEBPour 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, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
ASVPour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name; for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
YLTPour out Thy fury on the nations that have not known Thee, And on the families that have not called in Thy name, For they have eaten up Jacob, Yea, they have eaten him up, yea, they consume him, And his habitation they have made desolate!
DARBYPour out thy fury upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name; for they have eaten up Jacob, yea, they have eaten him up and consumed him, and have laid waste his dwelling-place.
BBELet your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.
WebsterPour 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.

What does Jeremiah 10:25 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 10:24-25

24-25. Since I (my nation) must be corrected (justice requiring it because of the deep guilt of the nation), I do not deprecate all chastisement, but pray only for moderation in it (Jr 30:11; Psa 6:1; 38:1); and that the full tide of Thy fury may be poured out on the heathen invaders for their cruelty towards Thy people. Psa 79:6, 7, a psalm to be referred to the time of the captivity, its composer probably repeated…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen - Even those who are now the executors of thy justice upon us will, in their turn, feel its scourge; for if judgment begins at us, who have been called thy house and thy people, shall they who have not acknowledged thee escape? It is impossible. The families and tribes which invoke thee not shall have thy fury poured out upon them, and especially they who "have eaten up Jacob and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate." This was fulfilled in the Chaldeans. Nebuchadnezzar was punished with madness, his son was slain in his revels, and the city was taken and sacked by Cyrus; and the Babylonish empire was finally destroyed! This verse has been often quoted against those ungodly families who set not up the worship of God in their houses. These are spiritual Chaldeans, worse indeed than the Chaldeans ever were: they acknowledge God and his Christ; and yet neither worship nor serve him. How can that family expect the blessing of God, where the worship of God is not daily performed? No wonder their servants are wicked, their children profligate, and their goods cursed! What an awful reckoning shall such heads of families have with the Judge in the great day, who have refused to petition for that mercy which they might have had for the asking.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 10:17-25

The Jews who continued in their own land, felt secure. But, sooner or later, sinners will find all things as the word of God has declared, and that its threatenings are not empty terrors. Submission will support the believer under every grief allotted to him; but what can render the load of Divine vengeance easy to be borne by those who fall under it in sullen despair? Those cannot expect to prosper, who do not, by…

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Jeremiah 10:25 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

שְׁפֹ֣ךְshe.Fokhpour outH8210
חֲמָתְךָ֗cha.ma.te.Kharage yourH2534
עַל\־'al-onH5921
הַגּוֹיִם֙ha.go.Yimthe nationsH1471
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhichH834
לֹֽא\־lo'-notH3808
יְדָע֔וּךָye.da.'U.khathey have known youH3045
וְעַל֙ve.'Aland onH5921
מִשְׁפָּח֔וֹתmish.pa.ChotclansH4940
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhichH834
בְּשִׁמְךָ֖be.shim.Khaon name yourH8034
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
קָרָ֑אוּka.Ra.'uthey have calledH7121
כִּֽי\־ki-forH3588
אָכְל֣וּ'a.khe.Luthey have consumedH398
אֶֽת\־'et-<obj.>H853
יַעֲקֹ֗בya.'a.KoJacobH3290
וַאֲכָלֻ֙הוּ֙va.'a.kha.Lu.huand they have consumed himH398
וַיְכַלֻּ֔הוּvay.kha.Lu.huand they have made an end of himH3615
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
נָוֵ֖הוּna.Ve.huhabitation hisH5116
הֵשַֽׁמּוּ\׃\ \פhe.Sha.muthey have devastatedH8074

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Cross references for Jeremiah 10:25

  • Psalms 79:6-7

    Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

  • Jeremiah 8:16

    The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.

  • Job 18:21

    Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

  • Psalms 14:4

    Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.

  • Zechariah 1:15

    And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

  • 2 Thessalonians 1:8

    In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

  • Jeremiah 50:7

    All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice, even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:5

    Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

  • Zephaniah 1:6

    And them that are turned back from the Lord; and those that have not sought the Lord, nor enquired for him.

  • Jeremiah 50:17

    Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

  • Psalms 27:2

    When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

  • Obadiah 1:10-16

    For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress. Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity; …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pour.
Ps 79:6,7
that know.
Job 18:21; Joh 17:25; Ac 17:23; 1Co 15:34; 1Th 4:5; 2Th 1:8
call.
Ps 14:4; Isa 43:22; 64:7; Zep 1:6
eaten.
8:16; 50:7,17; 51:34,35; Ps 27:2; La 2:22; Eze 25:6-8; 35:5-10
Ob 1:10-16; Zec 1:15

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Context

  • Jeremiah 10:24

    O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

  • Jeremiah 10:25

    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.

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Jeremiah 10:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Derrama tu enojo sobre las gentes que no te conocen, y sobre las naciones que no invocan tu nombre: porque se comieron á Jacob, y lo devoraron, y le han consumido, y asolado su morada.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Verse ta fureur sur les nations qui ne t’ont pas connu et sur les familles qui n’invoquent pas ton nom; car elles ont dévoré Jacob: ils l’ont dévoré, et ils l’ont consumé, et ils ont désolé son habitation.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ergieße deinen Grimm über die Nationen, die dich nicht kennen, und über die Geschlechter, die deinen Namen nicht anrufen! denn sie haben Jakob aufgezehrt, ja, sie haben ihn aufgezehrt und ihn vernichtet und seine Wohnung verwüstet.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Effunde indignationem tuam super gentes quæ non cognoverunt te, et super provincias quæ nomen tuum non invocaverunt: quia comederunt Jacob, et devoraverunt eum, et consumpserunt illum, et decus ejus dissipaverunt.