Jeremiah 14:19 Cross References - NSB

¹⁹ Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you despise Zion? Why have you struck us so hard that we cannot heal? We hope for peace, but no good comes from it. We hope for a time of healing, but there's only terror.

¹⁹ But even Judah did not obey the commands of Jehovah their God. They were guided by the rules Israel made. ²⁰ So Jehovah would have nothing to do with all the offspring of Israel. He caused trouble for them. He gave them up into the hands of their attackers, till he had sent them away from before his face.

¹⁶ They mocked God’s messengers. They despised his words, and made fun of his prophets until Jehovah became angry with his people. He could no longer heal them.

²⁶ »When I expected good evil came. When I waited for light darkness came.

⁵⁹ When God heard, he became furious. He greatly abhorred Israel.

³⁸ But you have despised, rejected, and become angry with your anointed one.

¹² Why did you break down the stone fences around this vine? All who pass by are picking its fruit. ¹³ Wild boars from the forest graze on it. Wild animals devour it.

³⁰ They call them rejected silver, for Jehovah has rejected them.

²⁹ ‘Cut off your hair and cast it away. Take up a cry of sorrow and grief on the bare heights. Jehovah has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.’

¹⁵ We waited for peace, but no good came. We waited for a time of healing, but all we got was terror!

²² Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician (healer) there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

⁸ »My chosen people have turned against me. Like a lion in the forest they have roared at me, and so I hate them.

¹ Jehovah said to me: »I would not feel sorry for these people, even if Moses and Samuel were standing in front of me. Send them away from my presence, and let them go.

¹⁸ »Why do I suffer constant pain? Why is my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you indeed be to me like a deceptive stream with water that is unreliable?«

¹³ »No one argues that you should be healed. But no medicine will heal you.

¹³ What example am I to give you? What comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? Your destruction is great like the sea. Who is able to make you well?

¹⁷ Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help. We watch for a nation unable to give salvation.

²² But you have rejected us. You are full of wrath against us!

⁸ »And I eliminated the three shepherds in one month. I was tired of them, and they also abhorred me (found me repugnant). ⁹ »Then I said, ‘I will not feed you! If you die go ahead and die. Let those that are left eat each other!«

¹ I ask has God rejected his people? Certainly not! I also am an Israelite, a descendant of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ² God has not rejected his people whom he first knew. Do you remember what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he made intercession to God against Israel? ³ »Jehovah, they have killed your prophets, and torn down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life.« (1 Kings 19:14, 18) ⁴ What does God say in answer to him? »I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.« ⁵ Even so at this present time there is a remnant chosen according to God’s grace. ⁶ If it is by grace then it is no longer on the basis of works. Otherwise grace is not grace (undeserved kindness). But if it is of works then it is not by grace. Otherwise works are no longer works.

³ When they say, »Peace and security!« then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They will not escape.