Jeremiah 14:19
Have thou utterly rejected Judah? Has thy soul loathed Zion? Why have thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came, and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
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2 Kings 17:19Also Judah did not keep the commandments of LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Job 30:26When I looked for good, then evil came. And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Psalms 80:12Why have thou broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
Proverbs 29:1He who, being often reproved, hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Jeremiah 7:29Cut off thy hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights. For LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 14:18-22
The Prophet's Intercession. ( b. c. 606.) 17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow. 18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not. 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah?… Read the whole commentary →