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Jeremiah 2:15 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 2 · verse 15
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.Jeremiah 2:15 · King James Version
Jeremiah 2:15 in context
13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
14Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
15The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
16Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
17Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- roaredshâʼagto rumble or moanH7580 →
- yellednâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
- yelledqôwla voice or soundH6963 →
- citiesʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
- burnedyâtsathto burn or set on fireH3341 →
- lionskᵉphîyra villageH3715 →
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The prophet, further to evince the folly of their forsaking God, shows them what mischiefs they had already brought upon themselves by so doing;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-19