Jeremiah 25 · Verse 37

Jeremiah 25:37

And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Jeremiah 25:37, King James Version

Jeremiah 25:37 in other translations

BSB	The peaceful meadows have been silenced because of the LORD’s burning anger.
WEB	The peaceful folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
ASV	And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
YLT	And the peaceable habitations have been cut down, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.
DARBY	and the peaceable enclosures shall be desolated, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
BBE	And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.
Webster	And the peaceable habitations are cut down, because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

What does Jeremiah 25:37 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

37. habitations--rather, carrying out the image "pastures" (see on Jr 25:30). The pasturages where, peaceably and without incursion of wild beasts, the flocks have fed, shall be destroyed; that is, the regions where, heretofore, there was peace and security (alluding to the name Salem, or Jerusalem, "possessing peace").

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 25:30-38

The Lord has just ground of controversy with every nation and every person; and he will execute judgment on all the wicked. Who can avoid trembling when God speaks in displeasure? The days are fully come; the time fixed in the Divine counsels, which will make the nations wholly desolate. The tender and delicate shall share the common calamity. Even those who used to live in peace, and did nothing to provoke, shall…

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Jeremiah 25:37 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.

וְנָדַ֖מּוּve.na.Da.muand they will be devastatedH1826

נְא֣וֹתne.'ot[the] pastures ofH4999

הַשָּׁל֑וֹםha.sha.Lom<the> peaceH7965

מִפְּנֵ֖יmi.pe.Nei<from> because ofH6440

חֲר֥וֹןcha.Ron[the] burning ofH2740

אַף\־'af-[the] anger ofH639

יְהוָֽה\׃Yah.wehYahwehH3068

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

Cross references for Jeremiah 25:37

Isaiah 27:10-11
Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Isaiah 32:14
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isa 27:10,11; 32:14

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Context

Jeremiah 25:36
A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the Lord hath spoiled their pasture.
Jeremiah 25:37
And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
Jeremiah 25:38
He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

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Jeremiah 25:37 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Y las majadas quietas serán taladas por el furor de la ira de Jehová.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	et les parcs paisibles sont désolés devant l’ardeur de la colère de l’ Éternel.
German Elberfelder 1871	Und die Auen des Friedens werden zerstört vor der Glut des Zornes Jehovas.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	et conticuerunt arva pacis a facie iræ furoris Domini.