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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 5:30 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 5:30 |
King James |
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; |
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] |
| (Jer 23:14; Hos 6:10). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The land - Heb. This land: aggravating the greatness of the wonder, that such a thing should be in such a land. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| A wonderful and horrible thing is committed on the land - Dahler translates: "Strange crimes and horrible trespasses have been committed in the land." These have been already detailed; but this may refer to what follows. |
10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.