Jeremiah 14:19 · KJV
“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!”
— Jeremiah 14:19
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not. {go about...: or, make merchandise against a land, and men acknowledge it not}
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, {and} the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
Jeremiah 14 — Context
Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
18If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not. {go about...: or, make merchandise against a land, and men acknowledge it not}
19Hast 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!
20We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, {and} the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
21Do not abhor {us}, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
Cross References
Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good {came; and} for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Lamentations 5:22
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. {But...: or, For wilt thou utterly reject us?}
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Jeremiah 6:30
Reprobate silver shall {men} call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. {Reprobate...: or, Refuse silver}
Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came {unto me}: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
2 Kings 17:19-20
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Jeremiah 12:8
Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it. {crieth...: or, yelleth: Heb. giveth out his voice}
Psalms 78:59
When God heard {this}, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: