Jeremiah 33:5 (WEB)

Passage

while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city:

Nearby Context

Jeremiah 33:3 ‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

Jeremiah 33:4 For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against the mounds and against the sword;

Jeremiah 33:5 while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city:

Jeremiah 33:6 ‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

Jeremiah 33:7 I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "come", "fight", "chaldeans", "fill", "dead", "bodies", "killed", and "anger". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "come" and "fight", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 4's "For Yahweh the God of Israel says..." into verse 6's "Behold I will bring it health and...", so "come" and "fight" belong inside that flow. In Jeremiah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "come" and "fight" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.