Jeremiah 14:17

And thou shalt speak this word to them; Let your eyes shed tears day and night, and let them not cease: for the daughter of my people has been sorely bruised, and her plague is very grievous.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

16And the people to whom they prophesy, they also shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, because of the sword and famine; and there shall be none to bury them: their wives also, and their sons, and their daughters shall die thus; and I will pour out their wickedness upon them.

18If I go forth into the plain, then behold the slain by the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold the distress of famine! for priest and prophet have gone to a land which they knew not.

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Cross References

Psalms 80:4Blow the trumpet at the new moon, 1 In the glorious day of your feast. 1

Isaiah 37:22This is the word which God has spoken concerning him; The virgin daughter of Zion has despised thee, and mocked thee; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at thee.

Jeremiah 8:21For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.

Jeremiah 10:19Alas for thy ruin! thy plague is grievous: and I said, Surely this is thy wound, and it has overtaken thee.

Jeremiah 30:14Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he has framed against Edom; and his device, which he has devised against the inhabitants of Teman: surely the least of the sheep shall be swept off; surely their dwelling shall be made desolate for them.

Lamentations 2:11Mine eyes have failed with tears, 1 My heart is troubled, 1 My glory is cast down to the ground, 1 For the destruction of the daughter of my people; 1 While the infant and suckling swoon 1 In the streets of the city. 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 14:11-17

Divine Threatenings. ( b. c. 606.) 10 Thus saith the Lord unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the Lord doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. 11 Then said the Lord unto me, Pray not for this people for their good. 12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.… Read the whole commentary →

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