Jeremiah 14:2
“Judea has mourned. And its gates have fallen and become hard to discern on the ground. And the outcry of Jerusalem has ascended.
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In Context
1The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the words of the drought.
Cross References
1 Samuel 5:12For the fear of death fell upon every single city, and the hand of God was very heavy. Also, the men who did not die were being afflicted in the inner part of the buttocks. And the wailing of each city was ascending to heaven.
Job 34:28so that they caused the outcry of the needy to reach him, and he heard the voice of the poor.
Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel. And the man of Judah is his delightful seedling. And I expected that he would do judgment, and behold iniquity, and that he would do justice, and behold an outcry.
Isaiah 24:4The earth mourned, and slipped away, and languished. The world slipped away; the loftiness of the people of the earth was weakened.
Isaiah 24:11There will be a clamor for wine in the streets. All rejoicing has been abandoned. The gladness of the earth has been carried away.
Jeremiah 4:28The earth will mourn, and the heavens will lament from above. For I have spoken, I have decided, and I have not regretted. Neither will I be turned away from it.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 14:2-10
Lamentation Caused by a Great Drought; Prayer for Mercy; Pleading with God. ( b. c. 606.) 1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth. 2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. 4 Because the ground is chapt, for… Read the whole commentary →