Jeremiah 13:20

Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?

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In The King James Version

Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?

In Context

19The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive.

21What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor?

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Cross References

Proverbs 14:28A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.

Jeremiah 1:14Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.

Jeremiah 10:22Listen! The sound of a report is coming—a great commotion from the land to the north. It will make the cities of Judah a desolation, a haunt for jackals.

Jeremiah 23:2Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.

Habakkuk 1:6For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.

John 10:12The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 13:13-22

The Bottles Filled with Wine; Punishment Predicted; A Call to Repentance. ( b. c. 606.) 12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? 13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord , Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the… Read the whole commentary →

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