Jeremiah 50:7

Everyone who went out to them devoured them. Their adversaries said, 'We are not guilty, 1 because they sinned against Yahweh, their true home—Yahweh, the hope of their ancestors.' 1

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In The King James Version

All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

In Context

6My people have been a lost flock. Their shepherds have led them astray in the mountains; 1 they have turned them around from hill to hill. They went, they forgot the place where they had lived. 1

8Leave from the midst of Babylon; go out from the land of the Chaldeans; 1 be like male goats that leave before the rest of the flock does. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 22:4Our ancestors trusted in you; 1 they trusted in you, and you rescued them. 1

Psalms 79:7For they have devoured Jacob 1 and destroyed his villages. 1

Psalms 91:1He who lives in the shelter of the Most High 1 will stay in the shadow of the Almighty. 1

Isaiah 47:6I was angry with my people; I defiled my heritage 1 and gave them over into your hand, but you showed them no mercy; 1 you placed a very heavy yoke on the old people. 1

Jeremiah 2:3Israel was set apart to Yahweh, the firstfruits of his harvest! 1 All who ate from the firstfruits were held guilty; disaster came upon them—this is Yahweh's declaration.'” 1

Jeremiah 14:8You are the Hope of Israel, the one who saves him in the time of distress, 2 why will you be like a stranger in the land, like a foreign wanderer who stretches out and spends just one night? 2

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 50:2-9

The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 1 The word that the Lord spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. 2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces. 3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove,… Read the whole commentary →

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