Jeremiah 32:31

For this city has aroused My wrath and fury from the day it was built until now. Therefore I will remove it from My presence

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — YHWH addresses Jeremiah concerning Jerusalem’s impending judgment during the Babylonian crisis. The declaration responds to the continuous evil and idolatry committed by Israel, Judah, their leaders, and residents since the city’s foundation.

The words — The phrase עַל־אַפִּי וְעַל־חֲמָתִי ('al-‘appî wə-‘al-ḥəmātî) translates literally as "on my anger and on my rage." It marks the sustained duration of divine hostility from the city’s construction to the present moment.

The thread — This removal motif appears in 2 Kings 23:27, where the LORD states He will take Judah and Jerusalem from His sight. It connects to earlier warnings about foreign altars in 1 Kings 11:7 and 2 Kings 21:4.

Why it lands — The text requires the reader to acknowledge that prolonged, unrepentant provocation results in definitive divine withdrawal. It demands a clear-eyed assessment of how corporate sin accumulates until it triggers irreversible judgment.

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The Hebrew words

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King James Version

For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,

Cross-references

2 Kings 23:27 For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”
1 Kings 11:7 At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.
2 Kings 21:4 Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
2 Kings 21:16 Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
2 Kings 24:3 Surely this happened to Judah at the LORD’s command, to remove them from His presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all that he had done,
Jeremiah 5:9 Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 6:6 For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.
Jeremiah 27:10 For they prophesy to you a lie that will serve to remove you from your land; I will banish you and you will perish.
Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
2 Kings 22:16 that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read,