Jeremiah 50:7

All who found them, devoured them, And, their adversaries, said—We shall not be, guilty,—Because they have sinned, Against, Yahweh the pasturage of righteousness, Yea the hope of their fathers—Yahweh.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

6Wandering sheep, have my people, been, Their own shepherds led them astray, On the mountains, they seduced them, From mountain to hill, have they gone, They have forgotten their couching-place.

8Remove ye out of the midst of Babylon, And out of the land of the Chaldeans, come ye forth,—And become ye like he-goats before the flock;

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Cross References

Psalms 22:4In thee, trusted our fathers, They trusted, and thou didst deliver them;

Psalms 79:7For he hath devoured Jacob,—And, his dwelling-place, have they laid waste.

Psalms 91:1He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High, Under the shadow of the Almighty, will tarry,

Isaiah 47:6I had been provoked with my people, Had profaned mine inheritance, And given them into thy hand, …Thou shewedst them no compassion, Upon the elder, madest thou very heavy thy yoke.

Jeremiah 2:3Holiness, was Israel unto Yahweh, The first-fruit of his increase,—All that devoured it, were held guilty, Calamity used to come upon them,—Declareth Yahweh.

Jeremiah 14:8Thou Hope of Israel, His Saviour in the time of distress,—Wherefore shouldst thou be as a sojourner in the and? Or as a wayfarer, who hath turned aside to lodge for the night?

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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