Jeremiah 15:7

And I will completely scatter them; in the gates of my people they are bereaved of children: they have destroyed my people because of their iniquities.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

In Context

6You have turned away from me, says the Lord, you will go back: therefore I will stretch out my hand, and will destroy you, and will no more spare them.

8Their widows have been multiplied more than the sand of the sea: I have brought young men against the mother, even distress at noon-day: I have suddenly cast upon her trembling and anxiety.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:18Cursed shall be the offspring of your body, and the fruits of your land, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep.

Deuteronomy 28:41You shall beget sons and daughters, and they shall not be yours, for they shall depart into captivity.

Psalms 1:4Not so the ungodly; —not so: but rather as the + 1:4 Or. dust or down. chaff which the wind scatters away from the face of the earth. 1

Isaiah 9:13But the people turned not until they were struck, and they sought not the Lord.

Jeremiah 4:11At that time they shall say to this people and to Jerusalem, There is a spirit of error in the wilderness: the way of the daughter of my people is not to purity, nor to holiness.

Jeremiah 8:4For thus says the Lord, Shall not he that falls arise? or he that turns away, shall he not turn back again?

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 15:2-10

Sentence against Judah Confirmed; Destruction of Judah. ( b. c. 606.) 1 Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. 2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the Lord ; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the… Read the whole commentary →

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