Jeremiah 14:19
Hast thou entirely rejected Judah? or hath thy soul loathing on Zion? why hast thou smitten us, so that there is no healing for us? we hoped for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold, there is terror!
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
20We know, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.
Cross References
2 Kings 17:19Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs of Israel which they had made.
Job 30:26That I hoped for good, but there came evil; and I waited for light, and there came darkness!
Psalms 80:12(80:13) Wherefore hast thou now broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way pluck the fruit from it?
Proverbs 29:1A man that, having received many admonitions, still hardeneth his neck, will suddenly be broken, and this without remedy.
Jeremiah 7:29Cut off thy flowing hair, and cast it away, and take up on mountain-tops a lamentation; for rejected hath the Lord and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
Jeremiah 8:22Is there no [more] balm in Gil'ad? or is no physician there? why then is there not placed a plaster [on the wound of] the daughter of my people?
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 →