Jeremiah 5:20

Declare ye this to the house of Jacob, and publish it in Juda, saying:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

In Context

19And if you shall say: why hath the Lord our God done all these things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not your own.

21Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not.

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Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 5:11-20

Divine Judgments Threatened; Divine Judgments Vindicated. ( b. c. 608.) 10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord 's. 11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the Lord . 12 They have belied the Lord , and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: 13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be… Read the whole commentary →

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