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!
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We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
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.
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-22)The present deplorable state of Judah and Jerusalem is here made the matter of the prophet’s lamentation ( Jer. 14:17 , 18 ) and the occasion of his prayer and intercession for them (Jer. 14:19), and I am willing to hope that the latter, as well as the former, was by divine direction, and that these words (Jer. 14:17), Thus shalt thou say unto them (or concerning them , or in their hearing ), refe…
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