Jeremiah 6:5
New International Version
So arise, let us attack at night and destroy her fortresses!”

New Living Translation
‘Well then, let’s attack at night and destroy her palaces!’”

English Standard Version
Arise, and let us attack by night and destroy her palaces!”

Berean Standard Bible
Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’ ”

King James Bible
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

New King James Version
Arise, and let us go by night, And let us destroy her palaces.”

New American Standard Bible
‘Arise, and let’s attack by night And destroy her palaces!’”

NASB 1995
“Arise, and let us attack by night And destroy her palaces!”

NASB 1977
“Arise, and let us attack by night And destroy her palaces!”

Legacy Standard Bible
Arise, and let us go up by night And destroy her palaces!”

Amplified Bible
‘Arise, let us [awaken to] attack her at night And destroy her [fortified] palaces!’”

Christian Standard Bible
Rise up, let’s attack by night. Let’s destroy her fortresses.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Rise up, let’s attack by night. Let us destroy her fortresses.”

American Standard Version
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Arise! We shall go up against her in the night and we shall destroy her palaces!”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations.

Contemporary English Version
we'll attack after dark and destroy its fortresses."

Douay-Rheims Bible
Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses.

English Revised Version
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Let's attack at night and destroy its palaces.'"

Good News Translation
We'll attack by night; we'll destroy the city's fortresses."

International Standard Version
Get ready, let's attack at night, and destroy her fortresses."

JPS Tanakh 1917
Arise, and let us go up by night, And let us destroy her palaces.'

Literal Standard Version
Rise, and we go up by night, | And we destroy her palaces.”

Majority Standard Bible
Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’”

New American Bible
“Up! let us rush upon her by night, destroy her palaces!”

NET Bible
So come on, let's go ahead and attack it by night and destroy all its fortified buildings.'

New Revised Standard Version
“Up, and let us attack by night, and destroy her palaces!”

New Heart English Bible
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces."

Webster's Bible Translation
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

World English Bible
Arise! Let’s go up by night, and let’s destroy her palaces.”

Young's Literal Translation
'Rise, and we go up by night, And we destroy her palaces.'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Jerusalem's Final Warning
4‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long. 5Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’” 6For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.…

Cross References
Isaiah 32:14
For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever--the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks--

Jeremiah 52:13
He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem--every significant building.

Obadiah 1:1
This is the vision of Obadiah: This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom--We have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent among the nations to say, "Rise up, and let us go to battle against her!"--


Treasury of Scripture

Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

let us destroy.

Jeremiah 9:21
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

Jeremiah 17:27
But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering 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 burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

hew.

Deuteronomy 20:19,20
When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege: …

cast a mount.

Jeremiah 32:24
Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.

Jeremiah 33:4
For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;

Jeremiah 52:4
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.

this.

Jeremiah 5:9,29
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? …

wholly.

2 Kings 21:16
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

Isaiah 59:13,14
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood…

Ezekiel 7:23
Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

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Jeremiah 6
1. The enemies sent against Judah,
4. encourage themselves.
6. God sets them on work because of their sins.
9. The prophet laments the judgments of God because of their sins.
18. He proclaims God's wrath.
26. He calls the people to mourn for the judgment on their sins.














Verse 5. - Let us go; rather, let us go up. "To go up" is the technical term for the movements of armies, whether advancing (as here and Isaiah 7:1) or retreating (as Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah 34:21; Jeremiah 37:5, 11).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Rise up,
ק֚וּמוּ (qū·mū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

let us attack
וְנַעֲלֶ֣ה (wə·na·‘ă·leh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common plural
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

by night
בַלָּ֔יְלָה (ḇal·lā·yə·lāh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3915: A twist, night, adversity

and destroy
וְנַשְׁחִ֖יתָה (wə·naš·ḥî·ṯāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural
Strong's 7843: Perhaps to go to ruin

her fortresses!”
אַרְמְנוֹתֶֽיהָ׃ (’ar·mə·nō·w·ṯe·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 759: A citadel


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