Jeremiah 25:37

and the peaceable enclosures shall be desolated, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

In Context

36There shall be a voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the noble ones of the flock: for Jehovah layeth waste their pasture;

38He hath forsaken his covert as a young lion; for their land is a desolation because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

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Cross References

Isaiah 27:10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its boughs.

Jeremiah 12:10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness:

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 25:31-38

General Desolation; Jeremiah's Faithful Preaching. ( b. c. 607.) 30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. 31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that… Read the whole commentary →

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