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Jeremiah 9:9 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 9 · verse 9
Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?Jeremiah 9:9 · King James Version
Jeremiah 9:9 in context
7Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
8Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
9Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- avengednâqamto grudgeH5358 →
- visitpâqadto visitH6485 →
- saithnᵉʼuman oracleH5002 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- soulnepheshproperly, a breathing creatureH5315 →
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The prophet, being commissioned both to foretel the destruction coming upon Judah and Jerusalem and to point out the sin for which that destruction was brought upon them, here, as elsewhere, speaks of both very feelingly: what he said of both came from the heart, and therefore one would have thought it would reach to…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11