Jeremiah 14:19
Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Hath Thy soul loathed Zion? Why hast Thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold terror!
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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2 Kings 17:19Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they practised.
Job 30:26Yet, when I looked for good, there came evil; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Psalms 80:12(80-13) Why hast Thou broken down her fences, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her?
Proverbs 29:1He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be broken, and that without remedy.
Jeremiah 7:29Cut off thy hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the high hills; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.
Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 14:18-22
The Prophet's Intercession. ( b. c. 606.) 17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow. 18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not. 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah?… Read the whole commentary →