Jeremiah 9:16
Thus saith the Lord, Call ye the mourning women, and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their voice;
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Leviticus 26:33And I will scatter you among the nations, and the sword shall come upon you and consume you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities shall be desolate.
Deuteronomy 28:25The Lord give thee up for slaughter before thine enemies: thou shalt go out against them one way, and flee from their face seven ways; and thou shalt be a dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:64And the Lord thy God shall scatter thee among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other; and thou shalt there serve other gods, wood and stone, which thou hast not known, nor thy fathers.
Ecclesiastes 12:5And they shall look up, and fears shall be in the way, 1 And the almond tree shall blossom, 1 And the locust shall increase, 1 And the caper shall be scattered: 1 Because man has gone to his eternal home, 1 And the mourners have gone about the market: 1
Jeremiah 13:24So I scattered them as sticks carried by the wind into the wilderness.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 9:13-23
Punishment Predicted. ( b. c. 606.) 12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? 13 And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; 14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: 15 Therefore… Read the whole commentary →