Therefore thus saith the Lord,.... This being the case of the people of the Jews, and they so resolutely bent on their own ways:ask ye among the Heathen; inquire among the nations of the world, the Gentiles that know not the true God, and have not the external revelation of his will, only the dim light of nature to guide them; and see if anything like this is to be found among them, as with this people, favoured with the law of God, his word and ordinances to direct them, and his prophets to teach and instruct them; suggesting that they were worse than the Heathens, and that it would be more tolerable for them, one day, than for these people:who hath heard such things?
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Jeremiah 18:13
Jeremiah 18:13
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who: 1 Samuel 4:7; Isaiah 66:8; 1 Corinthians 5:1
virgin: Jeremiah 2:13, Jeremiah 14:17, Jeremiah 31:4; Isaiah 36:22; Lamentations 1:15
a very: Jeremiah 5:30, Jeremiah 23:14; Hosea 6:10
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