16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
16 Their quivers are like an open grave; all of them are mighty warriors.
16 Their quiver is like an open tomb; they are all mighty warriors.
16 When they aim their arrows, you're as good as dead. They're a nation of real fighters!
16 Their quiver is like an open tomb; They are all mighty men.
16 Their weapons are deadly; their warriors are mighty.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 5:16
Commentary on Jeremiah 5:10-18
(Read Jeremiah 5:10-18)
Multitudes are ruined by believing that God will not be so strict as his word says he will; by this artifice Satan undid mankind. Sinners are not willing to own any thing to be God's word, that tends to part them from, or to disquiet them in, their sins. Mocking and misusing the Lord's messengers, filled the measure of their iniquity. God can bring trouble upon us from places and causes very remote. He has mercy in store for his people, therefore will set bounds to this desolating judgment. Let us not overlook the "nevertheless," Psalm 89:30-35.