Jeremiah 9:7
Therefore the LORD of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
6Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says the LORD.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:15The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place;
Psalms 62:5My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.
Isaiah 1:25I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
Jeremiah 6:27“I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress amongst my people, that you may know and try their way.
Jeremiah 31:20Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says the LORD.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 9:2-12
The Prophet's Lamentation; Wickedness of Judah. ( b. c. 606.) 1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to… Read the whole commentary →