Yirmeyah 5:18

18 Nevertheless in those days, saith Hashem, I will not make a full end with you.

Yirmeyah 5:18 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 5:18

Nevertheless, in those days
When these things should be done by the king of Babylon and his army: saith the Lord, I will not make a full end with you:
this was to be done at another time, not now; (See Gill on Jeremiah 4:27), (See Gill on Jeremiah 5:10), though some think that this is a threatening of more and greater calamities; that this would not be all he would do to them; he had not yet done; he had other evils and calamities, to bring upon them, particularly a long captivity.

Yirmeyah 5:18 In-Context

16 Their quiver is as an open kever (grave), they are all gibborim.

17 And they shall devour thine katzir (harvest), and thy lechem, which thy banim and thy banot should eat; they shall devour thy tzon and thine bakar; they shall eat up thy gefen and thy te’enah (fig tree); they shall impoverish thy fortified cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the cherev.

18 Nevertheless in those days, saith Hashem, I will not make a full end with you.

19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Why doeth Hashem Eloheinu all these things unto us? Then shalt thou answer them, As ye have forsaken Me, and served elohei nechar (foreign g-ds, strange g-ds) in your land, so shall ye serve zarim in an eretz not your own.

20 Declare this in Bais Ya’akov, and publish it in Yehudah, saying,