Jeremiah 5:30
An astounding and horrible thing, hath been brought to pass in the land:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
In Context
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:12Be amazed, O ye heavens, at this,—And shudder, be dried up utterly, Urgeth Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23:14But among the prophets of Jerusalem, have I seen a horrible thing,—Committing adultery, And walking in falsehood, And so strengthening the hands of doers of wickedness, not to return any man from his wickedness: They have all of them become to me as Sodom, And her inhabitants as Gomorrah.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 5:26-31
Expostulation with Israel. ( b. c. 608.) 25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. 28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet… Read the whole commentary →