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Jeremiah 11:20 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 11 · verse 20
But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.Jeremiah 11:20 · King James Version
Jeremiah 11:20 in context
18And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.
19But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
20But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
21Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:
22Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
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Key words (Strong's)
- righteouslytsedeqthe rightH6664 →
- vengeancenᵉqâmâhavengement, whether the act of the passionH5360 →
- revealedgâlâhto denudeH1540 →
- judgestshâphaṭto judgeH8199 →
- triestbâchanto testH974 →
- hoststsâbâʼa mass of persons , especially reg. organized forwarH6635 →
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The prophet Jeremiah has much in his writings concerning himself, much more than Isaiah had, the times he lived in being very troublesome. Here we have (as it should seem) the beginning of his sorrows, which arose from the people of his own city, Anathoth, a priest's city, and yet a malignant one. Observe here, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 18-23