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Jeremiah 30:14 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased. "
Jeremiah 30:14
Verse in Context
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12 For the LORD says, “Your hurt is incurable. Your wound is grievous.
13 There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up. You have no healing medicines.
14 All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.
15 Why do you cry over your injury? Your pain is incurable. For the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.
16 Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured. All your adversaries, everyone of them, will go into captivity. Those who plunder you will be plunder. I will make all who prey on you become prey.
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Jeremiah 30:1
"The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,"
Jeremiah 30:2
"“The LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book."
Jeremiah 30:3
"For, behold, the days come,’ says the LORD, ‘that I will reverse the captivity of my people Israel and Judah,’ says the LORD. ‘I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”"
Jeremiah 30:4
"These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah."
Jeremiah 30:5
"For the LORD says: “We have heard a voice of trembling; a voice of fear, and not of peace."
Jeremiah 30:6
"Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned pale?"
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