Jeremiah 29:16
Your insolence has risen up against you, the fierceness of your heart has burst the holes of the rocks, it has seized upon the strength of a lofty hill; for as an eagle he set his nest on high: thence will I bring you down.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
15I have made you small among the nations, utterly contemptible among men.
17And Idumea shall be a desert: every one that passes by shall hiss at it.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:11Sedekias was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and be reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 24:8And as the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, for their badness; thus says the Lord, So will I deliver Sedekias king of Juda, and his nobles, and the remnant of Jerusalem, them that are left in this land, and the dwellers in Egypt.
Jeremiah 38:2Thus says the Lord, I found him warm in the wilderness with them that were slain with the sword: go you⌃ and destroy not Israel.
Ezekiel 6:1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 21:9Son of man, prophesy, and you shall say, Thus says the Lord; Say, Sword, sword, be sharpened and rage,
Ezekiel 24:1And the word of the Lord came to me, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, saying,
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 29:16-24
The Doom of the False Prophets. ( b. c. 596.) 15 Because ye have said, The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon; 16 Know that thus saith the Lord of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity; 17 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. 18 And I will… Read the whole commentary →