Jeremiah 18:13

Therefore thus saith Hashem: 1 Ask ye now among the Goyim, 1 Who hath heard such things? 1 The Betulat Yisroel hath done a most horrible thing. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

In Context

12And they said, It is useless; but we will walk according to our own plans, and we will every ish do the sherirut (stubbornness) of his lev ra'ah. 1

14Does the sheleg (snow) of Levanon vanish 1 from the tzur of the slope? 1 Or shall the cold flowing mayim 1 that come from distant sources cease? 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 36:22Then came Elyakim Ben Chilkiyah, that was over the Bais, and Shevna the Sofer, and Yoach Ben Asaph, the Mazkir, to Chizkiyah with their begadim torn, and told him the words of Rav Shakeh.

Jeremiah 2:10For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and look; 1 and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, 1 and see if there has ever been anything like this. 1

Jeremiah 5:30An astonishing and horrible thing is committed in HaAretz; 1

Jeremiah 23:14I have seen also in the nevi'im of Yerushalayim a horrible thing; 1 they commit ni'uf and walk in sheker; 1 they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, 1 that none doth turn back from his wickedness; 1 they are all of them unto Me as Sodom and the inhabitants thereof as Amora (Gomorrah). 1

Lamentations 1:15Adonoi hath taken away 1 all my strong ones in my midst; 1 He hath proclaimed a mo'ed (set time) against me 1 to crush my young men; 1 Adonoi hath trodden the winepress 1 for the Betulat Bat Yehudah. 1

Amos 5:1Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a kinah (lamentation), O Bais Yisroel. 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 18:12-18

People of God Accused and Threatened; Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 600.) 11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. 12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord ; Ask ye… Read the whole commentary →

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