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Jeremiah 9:12

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

Who [is] the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth [and] is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

Jeremiah 9:12 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Jeremiah 9:12

Theological / Devotional

Who is the wise man? Both sage and prophet are now challenged to give the cause of the national calamities (see ch. 8:8, 9).

For what? An explanation of the “this,” earlier in the verse. The question was: “Why has the land been ruined and become a desolate wilderness?”

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