Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Jeremiah addresses the LORD immediately after praying for correction only in justice rather than wrath. He speaks as a prophet interceding for Israel during a period of national devastation and exile.

The words — The Hebrew imperative שְׁפֹ֣ךְ (she.Fokh) literally means "pour out," paired with חֲמָתְ/ךָ֗ (cha.ma.te./Kha), meaning "your rage." These terms open the verse's direct command for divine judgment against unrepentant powers.

The thread — The petition to pour out wrath on nations that do not acknowledge God appears in Psalms 79:6, while Jeremiah 8:16 and Job 18:21 echo the theme of judgment on the wicked. These references trace a consistent biblical tradition of calling for justice against unrepentant opposition.

Why it lands — The text demands acknowledgment that persistent rejection of God and destruction of His people warrants decisive judgment. It calls the reader to accept divine justice as the proper response to unrepentant evil.

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The Hebrew words

King James Version

Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

Cross-references

Psalms 79:6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
Jeremiah 8:16 The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.
Job 18:21 Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
Psalms 14:4 Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
Psalms 27:2 When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
Jeremiah 50:7 All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
Jeremiah 50:17 Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
Ezekiel 25:6 For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you clapped your hands and stomped your feet and rejoiced over the land of Israel with a heart full of contempt,
Obadiah 1:10 Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
Zephaniah 1:6 and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”