Jeremiah 13:19
New International Version
The cities in the Negev will be shut up, and there will be no one to open them. All Judah will be carried into exile, carried completely away.

New Living Translation
The towns of the Negev will close their gates, and no one will be able to open them. The people of Judah will be taken away as captives. All will be carried into exile.

English Standard Version
The cities of the Negeb are shut up, with none to open them; all Judah is taken into exile, wholly taken into exile.

Berean Standard Bible
The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive.

King James Bible
The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.

New King James Version
The cities of the South shall be shut up, And no one shall open them; Judah shall be carried away captive, all of it; It shall be wholly carried away captive.

New American Standard Bible
The cities of the Negev have been locked up, And there is no one to open them; All Judah has been taken into exile, Wholly taken into exile.

NASB 1995
The cities of the Negev have been locked up, And there is no one to open them; All Judah has been carried into exile, Wholly carried into exile.

NASB 1977
The cities of the Negev have been locked up, And there is no one to open them; All Judah has been carried into exile, Wholly carried into exile.

Legacy Standard Bible
The cities of the Negev have been closed up, And there is no one to open them; All Judah has been taken away into exile, Wholly taken away into exile.

Amplified Bible
The cities of the South (the Negev) have been closed up, And there is no one to open them; All Judah has been carried into exile, Completely carried away into exile.

Christian Standard Bible
The cities of the Negev are under siege; no one can help them. All of Judah has been taken into exile, taken completely into exile.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The cities of the Negev are under siege; no one can help them. All of Judah has been taken into exile, taken completely into exile.

American Standard Version
The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The cities of the south are shut up and there is none who opens. Yehuda is carried away captive, all the captivity entirely

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The cities toward the south were shut, and there was none to open them: Juda is removed into captivity, they have suffered a complete removal.

Contemporary English Version
The cities in the Southern Desert are surrounded; no one can get in or out. Everyone in Judah will be taken away.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to open them: all Juda is carried away captive with an entire captivity.

English Revised Version
The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah is carried away captive all of it; it is wholly carried away captive.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The cities in the Negev will be locked up, and there will be no one to reopen them. All the people of Judah will be taken away into captivity.

Good News Translation
The towns of southern Judah are under siege; no one can get through to them. All the people of Judah have been taken away into exile."

International Standard Version
The towns in the Negev will be closed up, and there will be no one to open them. All Judah will be taken into exile and be completely exiled.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The cities of the South are shut up, And there is none to open them; Judah is carried away captive all of it; It is wholly carried away captive.

Literal Standard Version
The cities of the south have been shut up, | And there is none opening, | Judah has been removed—all of her, | She has been completely removed—

Majority Standard Bible
The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive.

New American Bible
The cities of the Negeb are besieged, with no one to relieve them; Judah is taken into exile—all of it— in total exile.

NET Bible
The gates of the towns in southern Judah will be shut tight. No one will be able to go in or out of them. All Judah will be carried off into exile. They will be completely carried off into exile.'"

New Revised Standard Version
The towns of the Negeb are shut up with no one to open them; all Judah is taken into exile, wholly taken into exile.

New Heart English Bible
The cities toward the Negev are shut, and there is no one to open them: Judah is carried away into exile, all of it; it is wholly carried away into exile.'"

Webster's Bible Translation
The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them; Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.

World English Bible
The cities of the South are shut up, and there is no one to open them. Judah is carried away captive: all of them. They are wholly carried away captive.

Young's Literal Translation
The cities of the south have been shut up, And there is none opening, Judah hath been removed -- all of her, She hath been removed completely --

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Context
Captivity Threatened
18Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.” 19The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive. 20Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?…

Cross References
Jeremiah 20:4
For this is what the LORD says: 'I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword.

Jeremiah 32:44
Fields will be purchased with silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah--the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev--because I will restore them from captivity, declares the LORD."

Jeremiah 52:27
There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.

Lamentations 1:3
Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

Ezekiel 20:46
"Son of man, set your face toward the south, preach against it, and prophesy against the forest of the Negev.

Zechariah 7:7
Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?'"


Treasury of Scripture

The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.

cities.

Jeremiah 17:26
And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.

Jeremiah 33:13
In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.

Joshua 18:5
And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north.

shut.

Deuteronomy 28:52
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

Job 12:14
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

Judah.

Jeremiah 29:9
For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 52:27
And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.

Leviticus 26:31-33
And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours…

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Jeremiah 13
1. By the type of a linen belt, hidden at Euphrates,
9. God prefigures the destruction of his people.
12. By the parable of bottles filled with wine he foretells their drunkenness in misery.
15. He exhorts to prevent their future judgments.
22. He shows their abominations are the cause thereof.














(19) The cities of the south.--The term thus rendered (the Negeb) is throughout the Old Testament used for a definite district, stretching from Mount Halak northward to a line south of Engedi and Hebron. The strategy of Nebuchadnezzar's attack (as it had been of Sennacherib's, 2Kings 18:13) was to blockade the cities of this region, and then, when they were cut off from sending assistance, to attack Jerusalem.

Shall be shut up . . . shall be carried away.--Both verbs should be in the present tense, are shut up, is carried away.

Verse 19. - The rendering of the Authorized Version is substantially right, as the events referred to are obviously future. The tense, however, in the Hebrew, is the perfect - viz. that of prophetic certitude. Jeremiah sees it all in prophetic vision, as if it were actually taking place. The cities of the south; i.e. of the dry, southern country of Judah, called the Negeb - shall be [are] shut up - i.e. blocked up with ruins (as Isaiah 24:10) - and none shall open them (openeth them), because all Judah will have been carried captive. (For fulfillment, see Jeremiah 34:7.)

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The cities
עָרֵ֥י (‘ā·rê)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 5892: Excitement

of the Negev
הַנֶּ֛גֶב (han·ne·ḡeḇ)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 5045: South country, the Negeb, south

have been shut tight,
סֻגְּר֖וּ (sug·gə·rū)
Verb - Pual - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5462: To shut up, to surrender

and no one
וְאֵ֣ין (wə·’ên)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

can open them.
פֹּתֵ֑חַ (pō·ṯê·aḥ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 6605: To open wide, to loosen, begin, plough, carve

All
כֻּלָּ֖הּ (kul·lāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

of Judah
יְהוּדָ֛ה (yə·hū·ḏāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3063: Judah -- 'praised', a son of Jacob, also the southern kingdom, also four Israelites

has been carried into exile,
הָגְלָ֧ת (hā·ḡə·lāṯ)
Verb - Hofal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1540: To denude, to exile, to reveal

wholly
שְׁלוֹמִֽים׃ (šə·lō·w·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 7965: Safe, well, happy, friendly, welfare, health, prosperity, peace

taken captive.
הָגְלָ֥ת (hā·ḡə·lāṯ)
Verb - Hofal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1540: To denude, to exile, to reveal


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