Jeremiah 5:29
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 5:29 in other translations
| BSB | Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this? |
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| WEB | “Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says the LORD. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? |
| ASV | Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? |
| YLT | For these do not I inspect, an affirmation of Jehovah, On a nation such as this, Doth not My soul avenge itself? |
| DARBY | Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? |
| BBE | Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this? |
| Webster | Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? |
What does Jeremiah 5:29 mean?
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 5:19-31
Unhumbled hearts are ready to charge God with being unjust in their afflictions. But they may read their sin in their punishment. If men will inquire wherefore the Lord doeth hard things unto them, let them think of their sins. The restless waves obeyed the Divine decree, that they should not pass the sandy shores, which were as much a restraint as lofty mountains; but they burst all restraints of God's law, and…
Jeremiah 5:29 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 5:29
- Jeremiah 5:9
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
- Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
- James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
- Jeremiah 9:9
Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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Context
- Jeremiah 5:28
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
- Jeremiah 5:29
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
- Jeremiah 5:30
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
Jeremiah 5:29 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿No tengo de visitar sobre esto? dice Jehová; ¿y de tal gente no se vengará mi alma? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ne punirais-je pas de telles choses? dit l’ Éternel; mon âme ne se vengerait-elle pas d’une nation comme celle-là? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sollte ich solches nicht heimsuchen? spricht Jehova; oder sollte an einer Nation wie diese meine Seele sich nicht rächen? - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Numquid super his non visitabo, dicit Dominus, aut super gentem hujuscemodi non ulciscetur anima mea? |