a day (as the warm hours) · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
saith
נְאֻםne.'um-
H5002
an oracle · noun, common masculine singular construct
LORD
יְהֹוָ֑הYah.weh
H3068
Jehovah · proper noun, a title
make
אֶעֱשֶׂ֥ה'e.'e.Seh
H6213
to do or make · verb, qal imperfect, 1st person common singular
end
כָּלָֽהka.Lah
H3617
a completion · noun, common feminine singular absolute
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Jeremiah 4:27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
Jeremiah 5:10 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.
Romans 11:1-5 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Ezekiel 9:8 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou des…
Ezekiel 11:13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, a…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 5:10-19
We may observe in these verses, as before,
I. The sin of this people, upon which the commission signed against them is grounded. God disowns them and dooms them to destruction, Jer 5:10. But is there not a cause? Yes; for, 1. They have deserted the law of God (Jer 5:11): The house of Israel and the house of Judah, though at variance with one another, yet both agreed to deal very treacherously against God. They forsook the worship of him, and therein violated their covenants with him; they revolted from him, and played the hypocrite with him. 2. They have defied the judgments of God and given the lie to his threatenings in the mouth of his prophets, Jer 5:12, Jer 5:13. They were often told th…
Not even in those days of judgments, will God utterly exterminate His people.
I will not make a full end with you-- (Jer 5:10; Jer 4:27).
John Gill on Jeremiah 5:18
Nevertheless, in those days,.... When these things should be done by the king of Babylon and his army:
saith the Lord, I will not make a full end with you: this was to be done at another time, not now; See Gill on Jeremiah 4:27, Jeremiah 5:10, though some think that this is a threatening of more and greater calamities; that this would not be all he would do to them; he had not yet done; he had other evils and calamities, to bring upon them, particularly a long captivity.
John Calvin on Jeremiah 5:18
Jeremiah 5:18
18. Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not make a full end with you.
18. Atque etiam in diebus illis dicit Jehova, non faciam vobiscum finem (alii vertunt, consumptionem.)
Different views may be taken as to the meaning of this verse; but the greater part of interpreters think that a hope is here given to the faithful; yea, nearly all are of this opinion; indeed I know not any one who takes another view. They then think that God moderates here what he had previously said, and that he gives some ground of hope to his servants, lest they should imagine that the Church would be so reduced as to have no seed remaining: and klh, cale, as it was said yesterday, is o…
The Church Fathers
God, who judges "little by little," gives to those being chastised room for repentance, and does not, in punishing at the very moment of sin, bring the full completion of the punishment upon the one who has sinned. For this reason, "judging little by little," he chastises. And an example of this is in Leviticus; for in the curses against those who transgress the Law it is written, after the earlier punishments: "And it shall be, if after these things you do not turn back, says the Lord, I too will add to you seven plagues." And again he recounts another punishment: "And it shall be, if after these things you do not turn back, but walk toward me crookedly, I too will walk with you in crooked wrath." And you will find God measuring out punishments with sparing restraint, since he wishes to lead the one who has sinned to conversion, and does not repay them all at once. Such things, then, so far as the letter goes, had come about concerning the people; and the word, threatening them with what they will suffer, says after those things: "And it shall be in those days, says the Lord your God, I will not strike you unto complete destruction." But whether these things especially reach even to the punishments that are to come — if not, let the one who is able pass over from the things that befell the people in this life to those punishments as well; for I, being persuaded, would say that just as "they serve a copy and shadow of heavenly things," so it was with a copy and shadow of the true punishments that that people was punished for their own sins, so that every punishment according to the Law and the Prophets which concerns the people contains a shadow of the true punishments. If, then, for those people no complete destruction came upon them for their sins, but at some point in the end there would be — nor will there ever fail to be, even after the departure, a punishment upon those who have sinned. But the complete destruction came upon Jerusalem when the captivity is that of Nebuchadnezzar. And yet someone will say that not even then was there complete destruction, nor even in the times of the Maccabees. But the complete destruction came upon the people at the coming of my Lord Jesus Christ. For as long as the Savior was not saying to them, "Behold, your house is forsaken to you," it was not forsaken. But when he wept over Jerusalem, saying, "Jerusalem,…
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Judgments · Are frequently tempered with mercy — Are frequently tempered with mercy
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
This people will devour the harvest and the bread, the children, the cattle, and the best fruits of the land. Devour, here as often, in the wider sense, destroy; cf. e.g., Jer 3:24 and Jer 10:25, where the first half of the present verse is compressed into the words: they ate up Jacob. We need not wait to refute Hitz.'s absurd remark, that the author imagined the enemy, the assumed Scythians, to be cannibals. In the second half of the verse the words, "the fenced cities wherein thou trustest,"are a reminiscence of Deu 28:52; and hence we may see, that while our prophet is describing the enemy in Jer 5:15-18, Moses' threatening, Deu 28:49-52, was in his mind. רשׁשׁ, break in pieces, as in Mal…
The Lord comforted Jeremiah with the knowledge that the destruction would not be total, and he prepared the prophet to respond to those who wondered why the Lord would bring such severe judgment upon them.
Rashi on Jeremiah 5:17
He will impoverish your fortified cities [upon which you rely, with the sword] This verse is in the wrong order [and should be arranged as follows:] He will impoverish with the sword your fortified cities upon which you rely.
impoverish Heb. ירשש, he will impoverish.
with the sword With troops. Comp. “And a sword will not pass in your land” (Lev. 26:6).
