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Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but there was no good; And for the time of healing, and there was trouble.
Jeremiah 14:19 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
  • KJV Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
  • BSB Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
  • NASB ¶Have You completely rejected Judah? Or have You loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We waited for peace, but nothing good came; And for a time of healing, but behold, terror!
  • NLT Lord, have you completely rejected Judah? Do you really hate Jerusalem? Why have you wounded us past all hope of healing? We hoped for peace, but no peace came. We hoped for a time of healing, but found only terror.

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Quick answer

The people cry out, asking whether God has utterly rejected Judah and loathed Zion, since they hoped for peace and healing but found only terror. It voices the anguish of feeling forsaken under God's chastening hand.

Overview

This lament wrestles honestly with the apparent finality of God's judgment, asking why He has wounded them without healing. Their dashed hopes for peace expose the bitterness of discipline. Yet such honest crying out to God is itself a mark of faith that refuses to let go, the same faith that finds true and lasting healing in the wounds of Christ (Isaiah 53:5).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Lam 5:22But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.
  • Jer 8:15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
  • 1 Th 5:3For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
  • Jer 6:30Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”
  • Jer 12:8My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. She has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.
  • Job 30:26When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
  • Jer 15:18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
  • Jer 30:13There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up. You have no healing medicines.
  • Ps 78:59When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
  • 2 Kgs 17:19–20Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
  • Zech 11:8–9I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
  • Lam 2:13What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you?
  • Jer 15:1Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!
  • 2 Chr 36:16but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
  • Ps 89:38But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.
  • Jer 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
  • Jer 7:29Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
  • Lam 4:17Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
  • Ps 80:12–13Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
  • Rom 11:1–6I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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Christ at the center

Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.

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