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Jeremiah 9:16 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 9 · verse 16
I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.Jeremiah 9:16 · King James Version
Jeremiah 9:16 in context
14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
17Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- scatterpûwtsto dash in pieces, literally or figurativelyH6327 →
- heathengôwya foreign nationH1471 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- knownyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
- swordcherebdroughtH2719 →
- afterʼacharproperly, the hind partH310 →
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Two things the prophet designs, in these verses, with reference to the approaching destruction of Judah and Jerusalem: - 1. To convince people of the justice of God in it, that they had by sin brought it upon themselves and that therefore they had no reason to quarrel with God, who did them no wrong at all, but a…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-22