Jeremiæ 1:5

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Priusquam te formarem in utero, novi te : et antequam exires de vulva, sanctificavi te, et prophetam in gentibus dedi te.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Facti sunt hostes ejus in capite;
inimici ejus locupletati sunt:
quia Dominus locutus est super eam
propter multitudinem iniquitatum ejus.
Parvuli ejus ducti sunt in captivitatem
ante faciem tribulantis.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
HE. Facti sunt hostes eius in caput, inimici eius in securitate, quia Dominus afflixit eam propter multitudinem iniquitatum eius; parvuli eius ducti sunt captivi ante faciem tribulantis.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

adversaries: Lamentations 2:17, Lamentations 3:46, Leviticus 26:17, Deuteronomy 28:43, Deuteronomy 28:44, Psalms 80:6, Psalms 89:42, Isaiah 63:18, Jeremiah 12:7, Micah 7:8-10

for: Lamentations 1:18, Lamentations 3:39-43, Leviticus 26:15-46, Deuteronomy 4:25-27, Deuteronomy 28:15-68, Deuteronomy 29:18-28, Deuteronomy 31:16-18, Deuteronomy 31:29, Deuteronomy 32:15-27, 2 Chronicles 36:14-16, Nehemiah 9:33, Nehemiah 9:34, Psalms 90:7, Psalms 90:8, Jeremiah 5:3-9, Jeremiah 5:29, Jeremiah 23:14, Jeremiah 30:14, Jeremiah 30:15, Jeremiah 44:21, Jeremiah 44:22, Ezekiel 8:17, Ezekiel 8:18, Ezekiel 9:9, Ezekiel 22:24-31, Daniel 9:7-16, Micah 3:9-12, Zephaniah 3:1-8

her children: Jeremiah 39:9, Jeremiah 52:27-30

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:41 - thou shalt not enjoy them 2 Kings 21:14 - deliver Ezra 2:1 - whom Nebuchadnezzar Psalms 5:10 - the Psalms 13:2 - exalted Isaiah 22:5 - breaking Jeremiah 5:6 - because Lamentations 1:8 - hath Lamentations 1:16 - my children

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Her adversaries are the chief,.... Or, "for the head" n; or are the head, as was threatened, Deuteronomy 28:44; and now fulfilled; the Chaldeans having got the dominion over the Jews, and obliged them to be subject to them:

her enemies prosper; in wealth and riches, in grandeur and glory; live in ease and tranquillity, enjoying all outward felicity and happiness; while Zion was in distress; which was an aggravation of it; and yet this was but righteous judgment:

for the Lord hath afflicted her; who is righteous in all his ways: the Chaldeans were but instruments; the evil was from the Lord, according to his will and righteous determination, as appears by what follows:

for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy; that is, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judea were carried captive by the enemy, and drove before them as a flock of sheep, and that for the sins of the nation; and these not a few, but were very numerous, as Mordecai and Ezekiel, and others, who were carried captive young with Jeconiah, as well as many now.

n לראש "in caput", Vatablus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator "facti sunt caput", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Are the chief ... prosper - Or, “are become the head”... are at rest. Judaea is so entirely crushed that her enemies did not need to take precautions against resistance on her part.

Children - i. e. “young children,” who are driven before the enemy (literally the adversary), not as a flock of lambs which follow the shepherd, but for sale as slaves.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Lamentations 1:5. Her adversaries are the chief — They have now supreme dominion over the whole land.