Jeremia 5:15

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Zie, ik doe een natie uit verre gewesten tegen u opkomen, huis Israel, spreekt de Heer; een overoude natie is het, een eeuwenheugende natie, een natie wier taal gij niet kent, en waarvan gij niet verstaat wat zij spreekt.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Zie, spreekt de Heer, Ik zal over u, o huis van Isral, brengen een volk van verre: een volk van oude afkomst, een volk, welks taal gij niet kent, noch verstaat gij wat zij spreken.

Staten Vertaling
Ziet, Ik zal over ulieden een volk van verre brengen, o huis Israels! spreekt de HEERE; het is een sterk volk, het is een zeer oud volk, een volk, welks spraak gij niet zult kennen, en niet horen, wat het spreken zal.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: Jeremiah 1:15, Jeremiah 4:16, Jeremiah 6:22, Jeremiah 25:9, Deuteronomy 28:49, Isaiah 5:26, Isaiah 29:3, Isaiah 29:6

O house: Jeremiah 5:11, Jeremiah 2:26, Jeremiah 9:26, Isaiah 5:7, Ezekiel 18:31, Matthew 3:9, Matthew 3:10

a mighty: Daniel 2:37, Daniel 2:38, Daniel 7:7, Habakkuk 1:5-10

a nation: Isaiah 28:11, Isaiah 33:19, 1 Corinthians 14:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 11:7 - may Psalms 81:5 - where Isaiah 39:3 - They are Isaiah 42:24 - General Jeremiah 10:22 - the noise Jeremiah 20:8 - I cried Jeremiah 22:7 - I Ezekiel 9:2 - six Ezekiel 11:9 - and deliver Amos 6:14 - I will Habakkuk 1:6 - I raise Habakkuk 1:9 - for Zechariah 7:14 - whom

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far,.... From Babylon, as in Jeremiah 4:16:

O house of Israel, saith the Lord; though the house of Israel is generally taken for the ten tribes, especially when distinguished from the house of Judah; yet here it seems to design the Jews, the posterity of Jacob, or Israel in the land of Judea; for Israel, or the ten tribes, were carried captive into Assyria before this time:

it is a mighty nation; strong and powerful; so mighty that they would not be able to oppose them, and stand before them: "it is an ancient nation"; the Babylonish monarchy was the most ancient; it began in the times of Nimrod, Genesis 10:10 and therefore must be a nation of great power and experience that had so long subsisted, and consequently must be formidable to others:

a nation whose language thou knowest not; which was the Syriac language: this, it is plain, was not known by the common people among the Jews in Hezekiah's time, though some of the chief men understood it; wherefore Rabshakeh, the king of Assyria's general, would not deliver his railing speech in the Syriac language, which only the princes understood; but in the Hebrew language, the language of the common people, 2 Kings 18:26, though, after the captivity, this language was understood by the Jews, and was commonly spoken by them, as it was in our Lord's time:

neither understandest what they say; so would be barbarians to each other; nor could they expect any mercy from them, or that quarters would be given them, when their petitions for favour and life could not be understood.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Israel is not put here for the ten tribes, but for the whole house of Jacob, of which Judah was now the representative.

Mighty - “permanent, enduring.” The word is the usual epithet of the rocks Numbers 24:21, and of ever-flowing streams Deuteronomy 21:4, Hebrew). It describes therefore a nation, whose empire is firm as a rock, and ever rolling onward like a mighty river. The epithet “ancient” refers simply to time.

Whose laguage thou knowest not - This would render them more pitiless, as they would not understand their cries for mercy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 5:15. I will bring a nation — The Scythians, says Dahler; the Babylonians, whose antiquity was great, that empire being founded by Nimrod.

Whose language thou knowest not — The Chaldee, which, though a dialect of the Hebrew, is so very different in its words and construction that in hearing it spoken they could not possibly collect the meaning of what was said.