Jeremiah 3:25
Verse 25 of 25. The 3rd of 52 chapters in Jeremiah, in The Major Prophets.
21A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the Lord their God.
22Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God.
23Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
24For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
25We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.
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Jeremiah 3:25 in the World English Bible
Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the LORD our God’s voice.”Read Jeremiah 3:25 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 3:25
Or, rather, Secondly, These had been sacrificed to their idols, had been separated unto that shame (Hos. ix. 10), and they had devoured them without mercy; they did eat the fat of their sacrifices (Deut. xxxii. 38), even their human sacrifices. (2.) They take to themselves the shame of their sin and folly (v. 25): "We lie down in our shame, being unable to bear up under it; our confusion covers us, that is, both our penal and our penitential…
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