Jeremia 5:15

Lutherbibel

Siehe, ich will über euch vom Hause Israel, spricht der HERR, ein Volk von ferne bringen, ein mächtiges Volk, dessen Sprache du nicht verstehst, und kannst nicht vernehmen, was sie reden.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Siehe, ich bringe über euch, du Haus Israel, ein Volk von ferne her - spricht der Herr -, ein zähes Volk, ein uraltes Volk, ein Volk, dessen Sprache du nicht kennst und dessen Rede du nicht verstehst.

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.