Jeremiah 6:15

Were they ashamed when they practiced abominations? They were not ashamed; they did not know how to blush! 1 So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when they are punished, says Yahweh. 1

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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

14They have healed the wounds of my people lightly, 1 saying, 'Peace, Peace,' when there is no peace. 1

16Yahweh says this, “Stand at the road crossing and look; ask for the ancient pathways. 1 'Where is this good way?' Then go on it and find a resting place for yourselves. 1 But the people say, 'We will not go.' 1

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Cross References

Genesis 19:34The next day the firstborn said to the younger, “Listen, last night I slept with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you should go in and sleep with him, so that we may extend our father's line.”

Proverbs 29:1A person who has received many rebukes but who stiffens his neck 1 will be broken in a moment beyond healing. 1

Isaiah 10:4Nothing remains, and you crouch among the prisoners or fall among the killed. 1 In all these things, his anger does not subside; instead, his hand is still stretched out. 1

Jeremiah 5:9So should I not punish them—this is Yahweh's declaration— 1 and should I not avenge myself on a nation that is like this? 1

Jeremiah 8:12Were they ashamed when they practiced abominations? They were not ashamed; they did not know how to blush! So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when they are punished, says Yahweh. 1

Jeremiah 23:12therefore their way will be like a slippery place in the darkness. They will be pushed down. They will fall in it. 1 For I will send disaster against them in the year of their punishment—this is Yahweh's declaration. 1

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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