Jeremiah 4:17
They have been stationed over her, like the guardians of fields, all around. For she has provoked me to wrath, says the Lord.
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2 Kings 25:1Then it happened that, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, he and his entire army, arrived against Jerusalem. And they encircled it, and they constructed fortifications all around it.
Nehemiah 9:30And you continued to forbear them for many years. And you contended with them by your Spirit, through the hand of your prophets. And they did not listen, and so you delivered them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
Isaiah 1:20But if you are not willing, and you provoke me to anger, then the sword will devour you. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Jeremiah 5:23But the heart of this people has become incredulous and provocative; they have turned away and departed.
Jeremiah 6:3The pastors will come to her with their flocks. They have pitched their tents against her all around. Each one will feed those who are under his hand.
Lamentations 1:8HETH. Jerusalem has sinned a grievous sinz. Because of this, she has become unstable. All who glorified her have spurned her, because they have looked upon her disgrace. Then she groaned and turned away again.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 4:6-19
Punishment Predicted. ( b. c. 620.) 5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities. 6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. 7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste,… Read the whole commentary →