7I will winnow them with a winnowing fork at the city gates of the land. I will bring bereavement and destruction on my people, for they have not changed their ways.


In Context

4 I will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.

5 "Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will stop to ask how you are?

6 You have rejected me," declares the Lord . "You keep on backsliding. So I will lay hands on you and destroy you; I can no longer show compassion.

7 I will winnow them with a winnowing fork at the city gates of the land. I will bring bereavement and destruction on my people, for they have not changed their ways.

8 I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At midday I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men; suddenly I will bring down on them anguish and terror.

9 The mother of seven will grow faint and breathe her last. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. I will put the survivors to the sword before their enemies," declares the Lord .

Jeremiah 15:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:7And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:7And I will scatter them with a fan in the gates of the land: I have killed and destroyed my people, and yet they are not returned form their ways.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:7And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:7And 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:7And I have fanned them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them of children, I have destroyed my people; they have not returned from their ways.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:7And 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:7I 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:7And 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:7And 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.