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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 14:16 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Jer 14:16 |
King James |
And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
none to bury-- (Psa 79:3).
pour their wickedness--that is, the punishment incurred by their wickedness (Jer 2:19). |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
I will pour ... - i. e., their wickedness shall be brought home to them. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
And the people - shall be cast out - They shall be destroyed, because they preferred their lying words to my truth, proclaimed by thee. |
19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.