Jeremiah 14:19 “Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You…”

Jeremiah 14:19

Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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!

World English Bible

Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

American Standard Version

Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

Geneva Bible 1599

Hast thou vtterly reiected Iudah, or hath thy soule abhorred Zion? why hast thou smitten vs, that we cannot be healed? Wee looked for peace, and there is no good, and for the time of health, and behold trouble.

Darby Translation

— Hast thou then utterly rejected Judah? Doth thy soul loathe Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? Peace is looked for, and there is no good, — and a time of healing, and behold terror!

Young's Literal Translation

Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.

Bible in Basic English

Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

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Cross references

“utterly”

Lamentations 5:22 Jeremiah 6:30 Psalm 78:59 Jeremiah 15:1 Psalm 89:38 Romans 11:1–6

Lamentations 5:22 · BSB

unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.

Jeremiah 6:30 · BSB

They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”

Psalm 78:59 · BSB

On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

Jeremiah 15:1 · BSB

Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!

Psalm 89:38 · BSB

Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.

Romans 11:1–6 · BSB

I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

“hath”

Jeremiah 12:8 Zechariah 11:8 Zechariah 11:9

Jeremiah 12:8 · BSB

My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.

Zechariah 11:8 · BSB

And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.

Zechariah 11:9 · BSB

Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.”

“no healing”

Jeremiah 15:18 Jeremiah 8:22 2 Chronicles 36:16 Lamentations 2:13

Jeremiah 15:18 · BSB

Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me— water that is not there.

Jeremiah 8:22 · BSB

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

2 Chronicles 36:16 · BSB

But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

Lamentations 2:13 · BSB

What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?

“we”

Jeremiah 8:15 1 Thessalonians 5:3 Job 30:26 Lamentations 4:17

Jeremiah 8:15 · BSB

We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 · BSB

While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Job 30:26 · BSB

But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.

Lamentations 4:17 · BSB

All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

Also

Jeremiah 30:13 Jeremiah 7:29

Jeremiah 30:13 · BSB

There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.

Jeremiah 7:29 · BSB

Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”

20We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.

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