Jeremiah 6:5
What does Jeremiah 6:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 6:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`Rise, and we go up by night, And we destroy her palaces.'
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
Context
v.4Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
v.5This passage
v.6For thus hath Jehovah of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 48:3
God hath made himself known in her palaces for a refuge.
- 2 Chronicles 36:19
And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
- Jeremiah 17:27
But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
- Jeremiah 52:13
And he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.
- Amos 2:5
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
- Zechariah 11:1
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
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