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Jeremiah 9:19

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For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”

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Matthew Henry Bible Commentaryv. 19

In this chapter the prophet goes on faithfully to reprove sin and to threaten God's judgments for it, and yet bitterly to lament both, as one that neither rejoiced at iniquity nor was glad at calamities. I. He here expresses his great grief for the miseries of Judah and Jerusalem, and his detestation of their sins, which brought those miseries upon them (Jer 9:1-11). II. He justifies God in the greatness of the destruction brought upon them (Jer 9:9-16). III. He calls upon others to bewail the woeful case of Judah and Jerusalem (Jer 9:17-22). IV. He shows them the folly and vanity of trusting in their own strength or wisdom, or the privileges of their circumcision, or any thing but God only (Jer 9:23-26).

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Strong's Concordancev. 19

קוֹל (qôwl, H6963) — a voice or sound נְהִי (nᵉhîy, H5092) — an elegy שָׁמַע (shâmaʻ, H8085) — to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively,… צִיּוֹן (Tsîyôwn, H6726) — Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem שָׁדַד (shâdad, H7703) — properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by… מְאֹד (mᵉʼôd, H3966) — properly, vehemence, i.e. (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication,… בּוּשׁ (bûwsh, H954) — properly, to pale, i.e. by implication to be ashamed; also (by implication) to be… עָזַב (ʻâzab, H5800) — to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc. אֶרֶץ (ʼerets, H776) — the earth (at large, or partitively a land) מִשְׁכָּן (mishkân, H4908) — a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave;… שָׁלַךְ (shâlak, H7993) — to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)

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Jeremiah 4:13rank 5

Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!

Deuteronomy 28:29rank 3

and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.

Jeremiah 4:20rank 2

Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.

Jeremiah 2:14rank 2

Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?

Micah 2:4rank 2

In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”

Lamentations 4:15rank 2

“Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it was said, “They can stay here no longer.”

Micah 2:10rank 2

Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction— a grievous destruction!

Leviticus 18:28rank 2

So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.

Leviticus 18:25rank 2

Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

Leviticus 20:22rank 2

You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.

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