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Jeremiah 5:30
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An appalling, horrible thinghas taken place in the land.
A wonderful and horrible thing is happen in the land:
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land:
"An appalling and horrible thing Has happened in the land:
"A terrible and shocking thing has happened in the land of Judah:
A wonderful and horrible thing is happen in the land:
An horrible and filthie thing is committed in the land.
"A horrible and appalling thingHas happened in the land:
A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land.
Look at the terrible things going on in this country. I am shocked!
A shocking and horrifying thing has happened in the land:
An appalling and horrible thing is committed in the land:
"A terrible and shocking thing has happened in the land of Judah.
An astonishing and horrible thing is committed in the land:
A terrible and shocking thing has happened in the land:
A horrific event and something horrible has happened in the land.
An astounding and horrible thing has happened in the land.
Horrible and greuous thinges are done in the londe.
A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:
A thing of wonder and fear has come about in the land;
An appalling and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:
A wonderfull and horrible thing is committed in the land.
Horrible and greeuous thinges are done in the lande.
Shocking and horrible deeds have been done on the land;
A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land;
Wondur and merueilouse thingis ben maad in the lond;
A wonderful and horrible thing has come to pass in the land:
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
"Something horrible and shocking is going on in the land of Judah:
"An astonishing and horrible thing Has been committed in the land:
A horrible and shocking thing has happened in this land—
A very bad and surprising thing has happened in the land.
An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land:
An astounding and horrible thing, hath been brought to pass in the land:
Astonishing and wonderful things have been done in the land.
An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land:
An astonishing and horrible thing hath been in the land.
"Unspeakable! Sickening! What's happened in this country? Prophets preach lies and priests hire on as their assistants. And my people love it. They eat it up! But what will you do when it's time to pick up the pieces?"
"An appalling and horrible thing Has happened in the land:
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
A wonderful and horrible thing: or, Astonishment and filthiness, Jeremiah 2:12, Jeremiah 23:14, Isaiah 1:2, Hosea 6:10
Reciprocal: Proverbs 28:4 - that Jeremiah 18:13 - a very Jeremiah 22:22 - thy pastors Ezekiel 22:25 - a conspiracy Malachi 1:6 - O priests
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land. What may justly raise admiration in some, and horror in others, or both in all: it is so amazing that it can hardly be conceived of, and so shameful and filthy as not to be expressed; what it is follows:
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Against the God
(1) of Creation Jeremiah 5:22, and
(2) of Providence Jeremiah 5:24,
They sin, not merely by apostasy, but by a general immorality extending to all classes Jeremiah 5:25-28. It is in this immorality that their idolatry has its root.
Jeremiah 5:22
The sea is the symbol of restless and indomitable energy, chafing against all resistance, and dashing to pieces the works whereby man endeavors to restrain its fury. Yet God has imposed upon it laws which it must obey, and keeps it in its appointed place, not by barriers of iron but by a belt of sand. Modern science has shown that the resisting power of sand is enormous. A wave which would shatter rocks fails powerless upon sand.
Can they not prevail - The opposite of “thou couldest” Jeremiah 3:5. The sea, the mightiest of God’s works, cannot prevail, cannot break God’s laws, because He has not endowed it with free-will. Man, physically impotent, can prevail, because, being made in God’s image, he is free.
Jeremiah 5:23
The heart, or will of the Jews was first “revolting,” literally a will that “drew back” from God, because it disliked His service; and secondly it was “rebellious,” a will that actively resisted Him. Compare Deuteronomy 21:18, Deuteronomy 21:20.
Jeremiah 5:24
As God’s Providence addresses itself chiefly to the thoughtful, Jeremiah says in their heart. By the intelligent study of God’s dealings men perceive that they are not merely acts of power but also of love.
The appointed weeks - literally, He guardeth, maintaineth, for us the weeks which are the statutes or settled laws “of the harvest.” These were the seven weeks from the Passover to Pentecost, and were as important for the ingathering of the crops as the rainy seasons for their nourishment.
Jeremiah 5:25
It was not that the rains did not fall, or that the harvest weeks were less bright; the good was there, but the wickedness of the community blocked up the channels, through which it shou d have reached the people. The lawlessness and injustice of the times kept the mass of the people in poverty.
Jeremiah 5:26
Rather, he spieth about like the crouching down of fowlers; they have set the fatal snare; “they catch men.”
Trap - literally, “The destroyer;” it was probably a gin, which strangled the birds caught in it.
Jeremiah 5:27
Deceit - The wealth gained by deceit and fraud.
Jeremiah 5:28
Fatness is admired in the East as a sign of wealth.
They shine - This word is used of the sleekness of the skin, soft and smooth as ivory.
They overpass the deeds of the wicked - literally, “They have overpassed words of wickedness,” i. e., they go to excess in wickedness.
Yet they prosper - Or, that they (the orphans) may prosper, enjoy their rights.
Jeremiah 5:30
Rather, A terrible “and horrible thing” has happened “in the land.”
Jeremiah 5:31
Bear rule by their means - Rather, “The priests” rule at their hands, i. e., govern according to their false prophecies, guidance, and directions.
My people love to have it so - False teaching lightens the yoke of God’s Law, and removes His fear from the conscience: and with this, man is ready to be content.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 5:30. A wonderful and horrible thing is committed on the land — Dahler translates: "Strange crimes and horrible trespasses have been committed in the land." These have been already detailed; but this may refer to what follows.
