Jeremia 5:19

Lutherbibel

Und ob sie würden sagen: "Warum tut uns der HERR, unser Gott, solches alles?", sollst du ihnen antworten: Wie ihr mich verlaßt und den fremden Göttern dient in eurem eigenen Lande, also sollt ihr auch Fremden dienen in einem Lande, das nicht euer ist.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und wenn es dann geschieht, daß ihr fragt: „Weshalb hat der Herr , unser Gott, uns das alles angetan?" so sollst du ihnen antworten: „Gleichwie ihr mich verlassen und in eurem Lande fremden Göttern gedient habt, so müßt ihr auch jetzt Fremden dienen in einem Lande, das nicht euch gehört!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Wherefore: Jeremiah 2:35, Jeremiah 13:22, Jeremiah 16:10, Jeremiah 22:8, Jeremiah 22:9, Deuteronomy 29:24-28, 1 Kings 9:8, 1 Kings 9:9, 2 Chronicles 7:21, 2 Chronicles 7:22

Like as: Jeremiah 2:13, Deuteronomy 4:25-28, Deuteronomy 28:47, Deuteronomy 28:48, Lamentations 5:8

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 12:5 - Ye have forsaken me 2 Chronicles 24:20 - because Nehemiah 9:35 - For they Jeremiah 4:18 - Thy way Jeremiah 9:12 - for Jeremiah 44:3 - of their Ezekiel 14:22 - therein

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say,.... That is, the people of the Jews, to whom the prophet belonged, after they had been spoiled by the enemy, and carried captive:

wherefore doth the Lord our God all these things unto us? as if they were innocent and guiltless, and had done nothing to provoke the Lord to anger; and it may be observed, that they professed to know the Lord in words, and call him their God, though in works they had denied him; and they own the hand of the Lord in all those evils that would now be come upon them; though before they had said they were not spoken by the Lord, nor would they befall them, Jeremiah 5:12:

thou shalt then answer them; that is, the Prophet Jeremiah, in the name of the Lord:

like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land; when they were in their own land they forsook the worship and ordinances of God, and served the idols of the Gentiles, as the Targum rightly explains it:

so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours: which some understand of strange gods; but rather it designs strange lords, as the Chaldeans in the land of Babylon, a land not theirs; and so it is measure for measure, a just retaliation in righteous judgment upon them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The reason why God so chastises His people. As they in a land especially consecrated to Yahweh had served “strange” (i. e., foreign gods, so shall they in a land belonging to others be the slaves of strangers.