Bible Strands
Jeremiah 5:10
Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks through Jeremiah to the prophet and the nation, issuing a command for partial judgment during a period of confirmed national unfaithfulness recorded in Jeremiah 5:9–11.
The words — The directive employs עֲל֤וּ ('a.Lu) for "go up" and וְ/שַׁחֵ֔תוּ (ve./sha.Che.tu) for "ravage/destroy," immediately bounded by the prohibition אַֽל\־ תַּעֲשׂ֑וּ ('al- ta.'a.Su) meaning "do not complete."
The thread — This pattern of measured devastation parallels Jeremiah 4:27, where God states the land will be desolate but He will not finish its destruction, while Jeremiah 39:8 records the Chaldeans executing the physical ruin.
Why it lands — The text states that unfaithful branches are stripped and ravaged yet preserved, demanding a reader acknowledge that divine punishment targets specific rebellion without erasing the nation entirely.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord’s.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 4:27 For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
- Psalms 78:61 He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
- Jeremiah 39:8 The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 12:16 But I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
- Hosea 1:9 And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.
- Amos 9:8 Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.
- Matthew 22:7 The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
- 2 Kings 24:2 And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.
- 2 Chronicles 36:17 So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,
- Isaiah 10:5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.