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Jeremiah 10:19 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: King James Version
" Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it. "
Jeremiah 10:19
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
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Jeremiah 10:1
"Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:"
Jeremiah 10:2
"Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them."
Jeremiah 10:3
"For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe."
Jeremiah 10:4
"They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not."
Jeremiah 10:5
"They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good."
Jeremiah 10:6
"Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might."
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