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Jeremiah 25:18

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”

— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

[To wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as [it is] this day;

Jeremiah 25:18 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Jeremiah 25:18

Theological / Devotional

Judah. Jeremiah begins the recital of the divine judgments, with a prophecy of the chastisement pronounced upon his own people for their iniquity, and then he passes on to that to be inflicted upon other nations (see 1 Peter 4:17).

Astonishment. Literally, “a horror” (see on ch. 5:30).

Hissing. An expression of derision.

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