Jeremiah 14:19
Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
20We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.
Cross References
2 Kings 17:19and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.
Job 30:26But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
Psalms 80:12Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?
Proverbs 29:1A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
Jeremiah 7:29Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 14:18-22
The Prophet's Intercession. ( b. c. 606.) 17 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. 18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not. 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah?… Read the whole commentary →