Jeremiah 5 · Verse 16

Jeremiah 5:16

Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
Jeremiah 5:16, King James Version

Jeremiah 5:16 in other translations

BSBTheir quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men.
WEBTheir quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.
ASVTheir quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
YLTIts quiver is as an open sepulchre, All of them--mighty ones.
DARBYTheir quiver is as an open sepulchre; they are all mighty men.
BBETheir arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.
WebsterTheir quiver is as an open sepulcher, they are all mighty men.

What does Jeremiah 5:16 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
16. open sepulchre--(Compare Psa 5:9). Their quiver is all-devouring, as the grave opened to receive the dead: as many as are the arrows, so many are the deaths.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 16 Their quiver is an open sepulcher - They are such exact archers as never to miss their mark; every arrow is sure to slay one man.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 5:10-18

Multitudes are ruined by believing that God will not be so strict as his word says he will; by this artifice Satan undid mankind. Sinners are not willing to own any thing to be God's word, that tends to part them from, or to disquiet them in, their sins. Mocking and misusing the Lord's messengers, filled the measure of their iniquity. God can bring trouble upon us from places and causes very remote. He has mercy in…

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Jeremiah 5:16 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.

אַשְׁפָּת֖וֹ'ash.pa.Toquiver itsH827
כְּקֶ֣בֶרke.Ke.ver[is] like a graveH6913
פָּת֑וּחַpa.Tu.achopenH6605
כֻּלָּ֖םku.Lamall of themH3605
גִּבּוֹרִֽים\׃gi.bo.Rim[are] warriorsH1368

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

Cross references for Jeremiah 5:16

  • Isaiah 5:28

    Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

  • Psalms 5:9

    For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

  • Romans 3:13

    Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ps 5:9; Isa 5:28; Ro 3:13

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Context

  • Jeremiah 5:15

    Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

  • Jeremiah 5:16

    Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

  • Jeremiah 5:17

    And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

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Jeremiah 5:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Su aljaba como sepulcro abierto, todos valientes.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Son carquois est comme un sépulcre ouvert, ils sont tous des hommes vaillants.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ihr Köcher ist wie ein offenes Grab; sie sind Helden allesamt.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Pharetra ejus quasi sepulchrum patens; universi fortes.