Jeremiah 51:5

Legacy Standard Bible

For neither Israel nor Judah has been widowedBy his God, by Yahweh of hosts,Although their land is full of guiltBefore the Holy One of Israel.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For Israel and Judah are not left widowedby their God, the Lord of Armies,though their land is full of guiltagainst the Holy One of Israel.

Hebrew Names Version
For Yisra'el is not forsaken, nor Yehudah, of his God, of the LORD of Hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Yisra'el.

King James Version
For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the Lord of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

English Standard Version
For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the Lord of hosts, but the land of the Chaldeans is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

New American Standard Bible
For neither Israel nor Judah has been forsaken By his God, the LORD of armies, Although their land is full of guilt Before the Holy One of Israel.

New Century Version
The Lord God All-Powerful did not leave Israel and Judah, even though they were completely guilty in the presence of the Holy One of Israel.

Amplified Bible
For neither Israel nor Judah has been abandoned By his God, the LORD of hosts, Though their land is full of sin and guilt Before the Holy One of Israel.

World English Bible
For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of Hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For Israel hath bene no widowe, nor Iudah from his God, from the Lorde of hostes, though their lande was filled with sinne against the holy one of Israel.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For neither Israel nor Judah has been forsaken By his God, the LORD of hosts, Although their land is full of guilt Before the Holy One of Israel.

Berean Standard Bible
For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel."

Contemporary English Version
Everyone in Israel and Judah is guilty. But I, the Lord All-Powerful, their holy God, have not abandoned them.

Complete Jewish Bible
Isra'el and Y'hudah are not left widowed of their God, Adonai -Tzva'ot; but the land of [the Kasdim] is full of guilt before the Holy One of Isra'el."

Darby Translation
For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of Jehovah of hosts; for their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord All-Powerful did not leave Israel and Judah alone, like a widow. No, they are guilty of leaving the Holy One of Israel. Their God did not leave them. They left him!

George Lamsa Translation
For Israel and Judah have not been bereaved of their God, of the LORD of hosts their God; though their land was filled with wickedness before the Holy One of Israel.

Good News Translation
I, the Lord God Almighty, have not abandoned Israel and Judah, even though they have sinned against me, the Holy One of Israel.

Lexham English Bible
For neither Israel nor Judah is a widower from their God, from Yahweh of hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel."

Literal Translation
For neither Israel nor Judah has been widowed by his God, by Jehovah of Hosts, though their land was filled with guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for Israel & Iuda, they shall not be forsake of their God, of the LORDE of hoostes, of the holyone of Israel: no, though they haue fylled all their londe full of synne.

American Standard Version
For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Jehovah of hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

Bible in Basic English
For Israel has not been given up, or Judah, by his God, by the Lord of armies; for their land is full of sin against the Holy One of Israel.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For Israel is not widowed, nor Judah, of his God, of the LORD of hosts; for their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

King James Version (1611)
For Israel hath not beene forsaken, nor Iudah of his God, of the Lord of hostes; though their land was filled with sinne against the holy one of Israel.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
As for Israel and Iuda they shall not be forsaken of their God of the Lord of hoastes, yea for the holy one of Israels sake haue the Chaldees fylled their lande full of sinne.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But they hearkened not to me, and inclined not their ear to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn incense to strange gods.

English Revised Version
For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whi Israel and Juda was not maad widewe fro her God, the Lord of oostis; but the lond of hem was fillid with trespas of the hooli of Israel.

Update Bible Version
For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
For Israel [hath] not [been] forsaken, nor Judah by his God, by the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

New English Translation
"For Israel and Judah will not be forsaken by their God, the Lord who rules over all. For the land of Babylonia is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

New King James Version
For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, By his God, the LORD of hosts, Though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel."

New Living Translation
For the Lord of Heaven's Armies has not abandoned Israel and Judah. He is still their God, even though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel."

New Life Bible
For Israel and Judah have not been left alone by their God, the Lord of All, even though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

New Revised Standard
Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the Lord of hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For Israel and Judah have not been widowed a Of their God, Of Yahweh of hosts, - But, their land, hath been filled with punishment for guilt from the Holy One of Israel

Douay-Rheims Bible
For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken by their God the Lord of hosts: but their land hath been filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

Revised Standard Version
For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the LORD of hosts; but the land of the Chalde'ans is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
For, not forsaken is Israel and Judah, By its God -- by Jehovah of Hosts, For their land hath been full of guilt, Against the Holy One of Israel.

Contextual Overview

¹Thus says Yahweh:"Behold, I am going to arouse against BabylonAnd against the inhabitants of Leb‑kamaiThe spirit of a destroyer. ²I will send strangers to Babylon that they may winnow herAnd may empty her land to destruction;For on every side they will be against herIn the day of her calamity. ³Let not him who bends his bow bend it,Nor let him rise up in his scale‑armor;So do not spare her young men;Devote all her army to destruction. ⁴They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans,And pierced through in their streets." ⁵For neither Israel nor Judah has been widowedBy his God, by Yahweh of hosts,Although their land is full of guiltBefore the Holy One of Israel. ⁶Flee from the midst of Babylon,And each of you escape with his life!Do not be silenced in her iniquity,For this is Yahweh's time of vengeance;He is going to render recompense to her. ⁷Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of Yahweh,Intoxicating all the earth.The nations have drunk of her wine;Therefore the nations are going mad. ⁸Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;Wail over her!Take balm for her pain;Perhaps she may be healed. ⁹We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed;Forsake her and let us each go to his own country,For her judgment has touched heavenAnd lifts up to the very skies. ¹⁰Yahweh has brought about our righteousness;Come and let us recount in ZionThe work of Yahweh our God!

Bible Verse Review
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Israel: Jeremiah 33:24-26, Jeremiah 46:28, Jeremiah 50:4, Jeremiah 50:5, Jeremiah 50:20, 1 Samuel 12:22, 1 Kings 6:13, Ezra 9:9, Psalms 94:14, Isaiah 44:21, Isaiah 49:14, Isaiah 49:15, Isaiah 54:3-11, Isaiah 62:12, Hosea 1:10, Amos 9:8, Amos 9:9, Romans 11:1, Romans 11:2

nor: Zechariah 2:12, Zechariah 12:6, Zechariah 12:8

though: Jeremiah 16:18, Jeremiah 19:4, Jeremiah 23:15, Jeremiah 31:37, 2 Kings 21:16, Ezekiel 8:17, Ezekiel 9:9, Ezekiel 22:24-31, Hosea 4:1, Micah 7:18, Micah 7:20, Zephaniah 3:1-4

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 19:22 - the Holy One Isaiah 1:4 - the Holy Isaiah 43:15 - the Lord Jeremiah 12:7 - have forsaken

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For Israel [hath] not [been] forsaken, nor Judah of his God,

of the Lord of hosts,.... That is, not totally and finally; for though they might seem to be forsaken, when carried captive by their enemies, yet they were not in such sense as a woman is deprived of her husband when dead, and she is become a widow, as the word d used may signify; or when divorced from him; or as children are deprived of their parents, and become orphans; but so it was not with Israel; for thought they were under the frowns of Providence, and the resentment of God they had sinned against, yet the relation between them still subsisted; he was their covenant God and Father, their husband and protector, and who would vindicate them, and avenge them on their enemies:

though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel; which was the reason why they were carried captive, and so seemed to be forsaken of God; or though their land was filled with punishment, with devastation and destruction, yet nevertheless God would appear for them, and restore that and them unto it; or rather this is to be understood of the land of the Chaldeans, as it is by Jarchi and Kimchi; and be rendered, "for their land is filled with [punishment] for sin, from", or "by", or "because of the Holy One of Israel" e; by which it appears, that the people of God were not forsaken by him, and were not without a patron and defender of them; since it was a plain case that the land of the Chaldeans was filled with the punishment of the sword and other calamities by the Holy One of Israel, because of the sins they had committed against him, and the injuries they had done to his people. So the Targum,

"for their land is filled with, (punishment for) the sins of murder, by the word of the Holy One of Israel.''

d אלמן "viduus, [sive] viduatus", Vatablus, Calvin, Montanus; "ut vidua", Pagninus; "orbus", Schmidt. e כי ארצם מלאה אשם "quia terra illorum repleta est delicto, [sive] reatu, [vel] poena", Grotius; so some in Gataker. מקדוש ישראל "a Sancto Israelis", Montanus, Schmidt; "propter Sanctum Israelis", Vatablus, Calvin, Cocceius; so Ben Melech.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 51:5. For Israel hath not been forsaken — God still continued his prophets among them; he had never cast them wholly off. Even in the midst of wrath - highly deserved and inflicted punishment, he has remembered mercy; and is now about to crown what he has done by restoring them to their own land. I conceive אשם asham, which we translate sin, as rather signifying punishment, which meaning it often has.