Jeremiah 18:13
Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Ask, I pray you, among the nations, Who hath heard like these? A very horrible thing hath the virgin of Israel done.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
14Doth snow of Lebanon Cease from the rock of the field? Failed are the cold strange waters that flow?
Cross References
Isaiah 36:22And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who [is] over the house, cometh in, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer, unto Hezekiah with rent garments, and they declare to him the words of Rabshakeh.
Jeremiah 2:10For, pass to the isles of Chittim, and see, And to Kedar send, and consider well, And see if there hath been like this:
Jeremiah 5:30An astonishing and horrible thing hath been in the land.
Jeremiah 23:14And in prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing, Committing adultery, and walking falsely, Yea, they strengthened the hands of evil doers, So that they have not turned back Each from his wickedness, They have been to me — all of them — as Sodom, And its inhabitants as Gomorrah.
Lamentations 1:15Trodden down all my mighty ones hath the Lord in my midst, He proclaimed against me an appointed time, To destroy my young men, A wine-press hath the Lord trodden, To the virgin daughter of Judah.
Amos 5:1Hear this word that I am bearing to you, A lamentation, O house of Israel:
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 18:12-18
People of God Accused and Threatened; Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 600.) 11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. 12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord ; Ask ye… Read the whole commentary →