Jeremiah 15:13

Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — God addresses Judah through Jeremiah amid a pronouncement of imminent national collapse. He declares that He will strip the land of its resources as direct consequence for the people's accumulated iniquity.

The words — The term לָ/בַז (la./Vaz) translates literally as "to plunder," while בִ/מְחִ֑יר (vi/m.Chir) means "for price." The text uses these commercial terms to state that the coming confiscation will be an unearned penalty rather than a market transaction.

The thread — The same commercial judgment imagery appears in Jeremiah 17:3, Psalm 44:12, and Isaiah 52:3. Each passage applies the language of sale and pricelessness to describe divine action against His people.

Why it lands — The verse explicitly states that sin forfeits all earthly security and triggers unmerited confiscation. It requires the reader to acknowledge that covenant discipline operates outside human merit or economic logic.

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The Hebrew words

חֵילְךָ֧chei.le./Khawealth/ your וְאוֹצְרוֹתֶ֛יךָve./'otz.ro.Tei./khaand/ treasures/ your לָבַ֥זla./Vazto/ plunder אֶתֵּ֖ן'e.TenI will give לֹ֣אlo'not בִמְחִ֑ירvi/m.Chirfor/ price וּבְכָל־u./ve./Khol-and/ on/ all חַטֹּאותֶ֖יךָcha.to.Tei./khasins/ your וּבְכָל־u./ve./Khol-and/ in/ all גְּבוּלֶֽיךָ׃ge.vu.Lei./khaterritories/ your

King James Version

Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

Cross-references

Jeremiah 17:3 O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.
Psalms 44:12 You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
Isaiah 52:3 For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”
Jeremiah 20:5 I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.
Isaiah 52:5 And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.
Jeremiah 15:8 I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.