Verse Lens · Context pointer
Jeremiah 15:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
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Role in This Section
The prophetic word through Jeremiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD” at Jeremiah 15:3 as part of “Even Famous Intercessors Cannot Reverse the Sentence.”
Read It With
- Jeremiah 15:1–9
Follow Jeremiah 15:1–9, not verse 15:3 alone. The prophetic word through Jeremiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD” at Jeremiah 15:3 as part of “Even Famous Intercessors Cannot Reverse the Sentence.” The controlling limit is: The rhetoric does not make descendants bear genetic guilt, justify mass violence, or explain later Jewish catastrophe.
Why It Needs Context
Jeremiah 15:3 performs a local role inside “Even Famous Intercessors Cannot Reverse the Sentence.” The prophetic word through Jeremiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD” at Jeremiah 15:3 as part of “Even Famous Intercessors Cannot Reverse the Sentence.” The selected verse alone does not carry the full claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Jeremiah 15:1–9 — Even Famous Intercessors Cannot Reverse the SentenceSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Jeremiah 15:1–9, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Jeremiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2; fixed commit
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Jer.xml, OSIS 15:1–9
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