Jeremiah 9:7
Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, I will try them with fire, and prove them; for I will do thus because of the wickedness of the daughter of my people.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
6There is usury upon usury, and deceit upon deceit: they would not know me, says the Lord.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:15And the Lord God of their fathers sent by the hand of his prophets; rising early and sending his messengers, for he spared his people, and his sanctuary.
Psalms 62:5Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness; and my joyful lips shall praise your name. 1
Isaiah 1:25And I will bring my hand upon you, and purge you + 1:25 Gr. to pureness. completely, and I will destroy the rebellious, and will take away from you all transgressors.
Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.
Jeremiah 6:27I have caused you to be tried among tried nations, and you shall know me when I have tried their way.
Jeremiah 31:20Moab is put to shame, because he is broken: howl and cry; proclaim in Arnon, that Moab has perished.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 9:2-12
The Prophet's Lamentation; Wickedness of Judah. ( b. c. 606.) 1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to… Read the whole commentary →