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Jeremiah 3:24 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 3 · verse 24
For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.Jeremiah 3:24 · King James Version
Jeremiah 3:24 in context
22Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
23Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
24For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
25We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- devouredʼâkalto eatH398 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- labouryᵉgîyaʻtoilH3018 →
- flockstsôʼna collective name for a flockH6629 →
- shamebôshethshameH1322 →
- youthnâʻûwryouth, the state or the personsH5271 →
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Here is, I. The charge God exhibits against Israel for their treacherous departures from him, Jer 3:20. As an adulterous wife elopes from her husband, so have they gone a whoring from God.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 20-25