Jeremiah 6:8
Thou shalt be chastened, O Jerusalem, with pain and the scourge, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee a desert land, which shall not be inhabited.
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Deuteronomy 32:29They had not sense to understand: 1 Let them reserve these things against the time to come. 1
Psalms 50:17O Lord, thou shalt open my lips; 1 And my mouth shall declare thy praise. 1
Proverbs 4:13Take hold of my instruction; let it not go— 1 But keep it for thyself for thy life. 1
Jeremiah 2:15The lions roared upon him, and uttered their voice, which have made his land a wilderness: and his cities are broken down, that they should not be inhabited.
Jeremiah 7:3Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Correct your ways and your devices, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
Jeremiah 7:34And I will destroy out of the cities of Judah, and the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of them that make merry, and the voice of them that rejoice, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; for the whole land shall become a desolation.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 6:2-9
Judgments Threatened against Israel; The Doom of Israel. ( b. c. 608.) 1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. 2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. 3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place. 4… Read the whole commentary →