Jeremiah 33:5 “The Chaldeans are coming to fight and to fill those places with the co…”

Jeremiah 33:5

The Chaldeans are coming to fight and to fill those places with the corpses of the men I will strike down in My anger and in My wrath. I have hidden My face from this city because of all its wickedness.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.

World English Bible

‘While men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city,

American Standard Version

while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city:

Geneva Bible 1599

They come to fight with the Caldeans, but it is to fill themselues with the dead bodies of men, whome I haue slaine in mine anger and in my wrath: for I haue hid my face from this citie, because of all their wickednes.

Darby Translation

They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but to fill them with the dead bodies of the men whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.

Young's Literal Translation

they are coming in to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the carcases of men, whom I have smitten in Mine anger, and in My fury, and [for] whom I have hidden My face from this city, because of all their evil:

Bible in Basic English

... and to make them full of the dead bodies of men whom I have put to death in my wrath and in my passion, and because of whose evil-doing I have kept my face covered from this town.

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Cross references

“come”

Jeremiah 21:4–7 Jeremiah 32:5 Jeremiah 37:9 Jeremiah 37:10

Jeremiah 21:4–7 · BSB

this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will as…

Jeremiah 32:5 · BSB

He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.’”

Jeremiah 37:9 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, ‘The Chaldeans will go away for good,’ for they will not!

Jeremiah 37:10 · BSB

Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down.”

“I have hid”

Isaiah 8:17 Jeremiah 21:10 Deuteronomy 31:17 Isaiah 64:7 Micah 3:4 Jeremiah 18:17

Isaiah 8:17 · BSB

I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.

Jeremiah 21:10 · BSB

For I have set My face against this city to bring disaster and not good, declares the LORD. It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will destroy it with fire.’

Deuteronomy 31:17 · BSB

On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not the…

Isaiah 64:7 · BSB

No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.

Micah 3:4 · BSB

Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.

Jeremiah 18:17 · BSB

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”

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

In context

4For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the palaces of the kings of Judah that have been torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword:

6Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

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