Jeremiah 44:22

So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed: therefore your land is become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

In Context

21Was it not the sacrifice that you offered in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and Sour fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, which the Lord hath remembered, and hath it not entered into his heart?

23Because you have sacrificed to idols, and have sinned against the Lord: and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have not walked in his law, and in his commandments, and in his testimonies: therefore are these evils come upon you, as at this day.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:3And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Genesis 19:13For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.

2 Kings 17:15And they rejected his ordinances and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them: and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.

Psalms 107:33He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and the sources of water into dry ground:

Isaiah 7:13And he said: Hear ye therefore, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to be grievous to men, that you are grievous to my God also?

Jeremiah 5:9Shall I not visit for these things, sayeth the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 44:21-30

Jeremiah's Continued Remonstrance. ( b. c. 587.) 20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying, 21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the Lord remember them, and came it not into his mind? 22 So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the… Read the whole commentary →

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