Jeremiah 14:19
Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.
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2 Kings 17:19(But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.
Job 30:26For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
Psalms 80:12\80:11\It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.
Proverbs 29:1A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.
Jeremiah 7:29Let your hair be cut off, O Jerusalem, and let it go, and let a song of grief go up on the open hilltops; for the Lord is turned away from the generation of his wrath and has given them up.
Jeremiah 8:22Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?
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 →