Jeremiah 22:6

For Thus, saith Yahweh Concerning the house of the king of Judah,—Though thou wast Gilead, to me, The summit of Lebanon, Yet surely I will make thee, A wilderness, Cities, not habitable;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

For thus saith the LORD unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

In Context

5But if ye will not hear these words, By myself have I sworn Declareth Yahweh—That, a ruin, shall this house become.

7And I will hallow against thee Destroyers Every man with his weapons,—And they shall cut down of the choicest of thy cedars, and cast upon the fire.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:25And when they had sat down to eat bread, they lifted up their eyes and looked, and lo! a caravan of Ishmaelites, coming in from Gilead,—and, their camels, were bearing tragacanth gum, and balsam and cistus-gum, they were going their way, to take them down to Egypt.

Psalms 107:34A Land of Fruit, into a waste of salt, For the wickedness of them who dwell therein.

Isaiah 6:11Then said I—How long, My Lord? And he said—Until the time that Cities be wasted through having no inhabitant And houses—through having no men, And, the ground, be laid waste unto desolation;

Isaiah 27:10For the fortified city, is solitary, The dwelling forsaken and left as a wilderness,—There, shall the calf feed, And, there, lie down And shall consume the branches thereof:

Jeremiah 4:7There hath come up a lion out of his thicket, Yea, a destroyer of nations—hath set forward, hath come forth out of his place,—To make thy land a desolation, Thy cities, shall fall in ruins, so as to have no inhabitant.

Jeremiah 7:34So will I cause to cease, From the cities of Judah, and, From the streets of Jerusalem, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, The voice of the bridegroom, and The voice of the bride,—For, a desolation, shall the land become.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 22:2-10

Jeremiah Preaches before Jehoiakim. ( b. c. 590.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word, 2 And say, Hear the word of the Lord , O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates: 3 Thus saith the Lord ; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither… Read the whole commentary →

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