Jeremiah 14:19

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“Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.”

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BSBPD

“Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!”

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“Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!”

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“Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Jeremiah 14:19 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Kings 17:19and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.
  2. 2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
  3. Job 30:26But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
  4. Psalms 78:59On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
  5. Psalms 80:12Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?
  6. Psalms 89:38Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.
  7. Proverbs 29:1A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
  8. Jeremiah 6:30They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
  9. Jeremiah 7:29Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
  10. Jeremiah 8:15We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
  11. Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
  12. Jeremiah 12:7I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies.
  13. Jeremiah 12:8My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.
  14. Jeremiah 15:1Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.
  15. Jeremiah 15:18Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me— water that is not there.
  16. Jeremiah 30:12For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.
  17. Jeremiah 30:13There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.
  18. Jeremiah 51:5For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.”
  19. Lamentations 2:13What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?
  20. Lamentations 2:22You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
  21. Lamentations 4:17All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
  22. Lamentations 5:22unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
  23. Zechariah 11:8And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.
  24. Romans 11:1I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

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