Jeremiah 5:30

An astonishing and horrible thing hath been in the land.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

In Context

29For these do not I inspect, an affirmation of Jehovah, On a nation such as this, Doth not My soul avenge itself?

31The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved [it] so, And what do they at its latter end?

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Cross References

Jeremiah 2:12Be astonished, ye heavens, at this, Yea, be frightened, be greatly wasted, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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.

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 →

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