Jeremiah 6:15

They were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those who are truly ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace: therefore shall they utterly fall when they do fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, said the Lord.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

In Context

14And they healed the breach of my people imperfectly, making light of it, and saying, Peace, peace, and where is peace?

16Thus says the Lord, Stand you⌃ in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths of the Lord; and see what is the good way, and walk in it, and you⌃ shall find purification for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in them.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:34And it came to pass on the morrow, that the elder said to the younger, Behold, I slept yesternight with our father, let us make him drink wine in this night also, and do you go in and sleep with him, and let us raise up seed of our father.

Proverbs 29:1A reprover is better than a stiff-necked man: for when the latter is suddenly set on fire, there shall be no remedy.

Isaiah 10:4that you⌃ may not fall into + 10:4 Heb. and Alex. + ‘and they shall fall under the slain’ captivity? For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.

Jeremiah 5:9Shall I not visit for these things? says the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this.

Jeremiah 23:12Therefore let their way be to them slippery and dark: and they shall be tripped up and fall in it: for I will bring evils upon them, in the year of their visitation.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 6:10-18

The Universal Corruption of the Age. ( b. c. 608.) 9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets. 10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord ; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the… Read the whole commentary →

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