Jeremiah 19 · Verse 10

Jeremiah 19:10

Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
Jeremiah 19:10, King James Version

Jeremiah 19:10 in other translations

BSBThen you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,
WEB“Then you shall break the container in the sight of the men who go with you,
ASVThen shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
YLT‘And thou hast broken the bottle before the eyes of the men who are going with thee,
DARBYAnd thou shalt break the flagon in the sight of the men that go with thee,
BBEThen let the potter's bottle be broken before the eyes of the men who have gone with you,
WebsterThen shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

What does Jeremiah 19:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. break ... bottle--a symbolical action, explained in Jr 19:11. the men--the elders of the people and of the priests (Jr 19:1; compare Jr 51:63, 64).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 19:10-15
The potter's vessel, after it is hardened, can never be pieced again when it is broken. And as the bottle was broken, so shall Judah and Jerusalem be broken by the Chaldeans. No human hand can repair it; but if they return to the Lord he will heal. As they filled Tophet with the slain sacrificed to their idols, so will God fill the whole city with the slain that shall fall as sacrifices to his justice. Whatever men may think, God will appear as terrible against sin and sinners as the Scriptures state; nor shall the unbelief of men make his promise or his threatenings of no effect. The obstinacy of sinners in sinful ways, is their own fault; if they are deaf to the word of God, it is because they have stopped their ears. We have need to pray that God, by his grace, would deliver us from hardness of heart, and contempt of his word and commandments.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Jeremiah 19:10 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.

וְשָׁבַרְתָּ֖ve.sha.var.Taand you will breakH7665
הַבַּקְבֻּ֑קha.bak.Bukthe bottleH1228
לְעֵינֵי֙le.'ei.Neito [the] eyes ofH5869
הָֽאֲנָשִׁ֔יםha.'a.na.Shimthe menH582
הַהֹלְכִ֖יםha.ho.le.Khimwho goH1980
אוֹתָֽךְ\׃'o.Takhwith youH854

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jeremiah 19:10

  • Jeremiah 51:63-64

    And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

  • Jeremiah 48:12

    Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.

  • Jeremiah 19:1

    Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
48:12; 51:63,64

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Context

  • Jeremiah 19:9

    And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

  • Jeremiah 19:10

    Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

  • Jeremiah 19:11

    And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.

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Jeremiah 19:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y quebrarás la vasija ante los ojos de los varones que van contigo,
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et tu briseras le vase devant les yeux des hommes qui sont allés avec toi,
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und du sollst den Krug zerbrechen vor den Augen der Männer, die mit dir gegangen sind,
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et conteres lagunculam in oculis virorum qui ibunt tecum,