Jeremiah 15:7 “I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I…”

Jeremiah 15:7

I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

World English Bible

I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land. I have bereaved them of children. I have destroyed my people. They didn’t return from their ways.

American Standard Version

And I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them of children, I have destroyed my people; they returned not from their ways.

Geneva Bible 1599

And I wil scatter them with the fanne in the gates of the earth I haue wasted, and destroyed my people, yet they would not returne from their wayes.

Darby Translation

And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave of children [and] destroy my people: they have not returned from their ways.

Young's Literal Translation

And I scatter them with a fan, in the gates the land, I bereaved, I have destroyed My people, From their ways they turned not back.

Bible in Basic English

And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.

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Cross references

“I will fan”

Jeremiah 51:2 Matthew 3:12 Isaiah 41:16 Psalm 1:4 Jeremiah 4:11 Jeremiah 4:12

Jeremiah 51:2 · BSB

I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.

Matthew 3:12 · BSB

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Isaiah 41:16 · BSB

You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 1:4 · BSB

Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

Jeremiah 4:11 · BSB

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;

Jeremiah 4:12 · BSB

a wind too strong for that comes from Me. Now I also pronounce judgments against them.”

“bereave”

Jeremiah 18:21 Deuteronomy 28:41 Hosea 9:12–17 Jeremiah 9:21 Deuteronomy 28:18 Deuteronomy 28:32

Jeremiah 18:21 · BSB

Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in…

Deuteronomy 28:41 · BSB

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.

Hosea 9:12–17 · BSB

Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!

Jeremiah 9:21 · BSB

For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

Deuteronomy 28:18 · BSB

The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

Deuteronomy 28:32 · BSB

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

“children”

Ezekiel 24:25 Ezekiel 24:21

Ezekiel 24:25 · BSB

And you, son of man, know that on the day I take away their stronghold, their pride and joy—the desire of their eyes which uplifted their souls—and their sons and daughters as well,

Ezekiel 24:21 · BSB

Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left beh…

“since”

Jeremiah 5:3 Isaiah 9:13 Amos 4:10–12 Zechariah 1:4 Jeremiah 8:4 Jeremiah 8:5

Jeremiah 5:3 · BSB

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

Isaiah 9:13 · BSB

But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.

Amos 4:10–12 · BSB

“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LOR…

Zechariah 1:4 · BSB

Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 8:4 · BSB

So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?

Jeremiah 8:5 · BSB

Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.

8I 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.

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