Jeremiah 6:11

Judgment

⁹ This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.”

¹⁰ To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.

But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.

¹² Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.

¹³ “For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.
KJV: Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
WEB: Therefore I am full of the LORD’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
ASV: Therefore I am full of the wrath of Jehovah; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
DARBY: And I am full of the fury of Jehovah, I am weary with holding in. Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken; the aged with him [that is] full of days.
BLB: Therefore I am full [of] the fury of YHWH—I grow weary of holding [it] in! “Pour [it] out on the sons outside, and on the assembly of young men together! For even the husband with [his] wife will be captured, the aged with the one full of days.

ÅB: men jeg er fylt av Herrens vrede, jeg er trett av å holde den hos meg.[^2] Utøs den over barnet på gaten og over de unge menns fortrolige krets! Ja, både mann og kvinne skal rammes, både den gamle og den eldgamle,
OTB: Likevel er jeg overveldet av Herrens vrede, ute av stand til å holde den tilbake. ‘Utøs den over barna i gaten og over de unge mennene som er samlet; både mann og kone vil bli fanget i den, og de gamle, de som er tynget av år.
B1930: men jeg er fylt av Herrens vrede, jeg er trett av å holde den hos mig. Utøs den over barnet på gaten og over de unge menns fortrolige krets! Ja, både mann og kvinne skal rammes, både den gamle og den eldgamle, / < Herrens ord til profeten.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Jeremiah 20:9
If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
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Jeremiah 9:21
For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
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Job 32:18–19
For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.
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Micah 3:8
As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
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Acts 4:20
For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
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Ezekiel 3:14
So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.
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Jeremiah 7:20
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.
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Acts 18:5
And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself fully to the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
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