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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 5:30 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Jer 5:30 |
Strong Concordance |
A wonderful [08047] and horrible thing [08186] is committed [01961] in the land [0776]; |
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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 [07200] an horrible thing [08186] in the house [01004] of Israel [03478]: there is the whoredom [02184] of Ephraim [0669], Israel [03478] is defiled [02930].
14 I have seen [07200] also in the prophets [05030] of Jerusalem [03389] an horrible thing [08186]: they commit adultery [05003], and walk [01980] in lies [08267]: they strengthen [02388] also the hands [03027] of evildoers [07489], that none [0376] doth return [07725] from his wickedness [07451]: they are all of them unto me as Sodom [05467], and the inhabitants [03427] thereof as Gomorrah [06017].