Jeremiah 15:5

5 ¹“Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, ²or who will grieve for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

Jeremiah 15:5 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 15:5

For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem?
&c.] The inhabitants of it; their sins being so many, and so heinous, and so aggravated, and so deserving of punishment, that none could pity their case, or have a heart of compassion towards them, or even spare reproaching them: or "who shall bemoan thee?" sympathize and condole with thee, or speak a comfortable word to thee, or seek to alleviate thy grief and sorrow: or "who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?" or "of thy peace?" ^F3 shall not think it worth their while to go a step out of their way, or turn into a house, and inquire of thy welfare, or salute thee.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 (Kl Mwlvl lwavl) "ad petendum [de] pace tua", Pagninus; "ad interrogandum te de paca tua", Piscator; "[sive] prosperitate tua", Junius & Tremellius.

Jeremiah 15:5 In-Context

3 I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

4 And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.

5 “Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will grieve for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

6 You have rejected me, declares the Lord; you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you— I am weary of relenting.

7 I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.

Cross References

• 1. 15:5 Isa. 51:19; [Nah. 3:7]
• 2. 15:5 Isa. 51:19; [Nah. 3:7]