Jeremiah 14:12
When they fast I will not hear their prayers: and if they offer holocausts and victims, I will not receive them: for I will consume them by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
11And the Lord said to me: Pray not for this people for their good.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:28Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me:
Proverbs 21:27The sacrifices of the wicked are abominable, because they are offered of wickedness.
Isaiah 1:11To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.
Isaiah 58:3Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded: have we humbled our souls, and thou hast not taken notice? Behold in the day of your fast your own will is found, and you exact of all your debtors.
Jeremiah 7:21Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh.
Jeremiah 11:11Wherefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring in evils upon them, which they shall not be able to escape: and they shall cry to me, and I will not hearken to them.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 14:11-17
Divine Threatenings. ( b. c. 606.) 10 Thus saith the Lord unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the Lord doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. 11 Then said the Lord unto me, Pray not for this people for their good. 12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.… Read the whole commentary →