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Jeremiah 4:22 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 4 · verse 22
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.Jeremiah 4:22 · King James Version
Jeremiah 4:22 in context
20Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
21How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
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Key words (Strong's)
- understandingbîynto separate mentallyH995 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- foolishʼĕvîylsillyH191 →
- sottishçâkâlsillyH5530 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- knownyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
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The prophet is here in an agony, and cries out like one upon the rack of pain with some acute distemper, or as a woman in travail. The expressions are very pathetic and moving, enough to melt a heart of stone into compassion: My bowels! my bowels! I am pained at my very heart;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-31