Jeremiah 2:12Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord.
Douay-Rheims

שֹׁ֥מּוּ שָׁמַ֖יִם עַל־זֹ֑את וְשַׂעֲר֛וּ חָרְב֥וּ מְאֹ֖ד נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Nikolaj Velimirovic

20th centuryChurch Father

O my brethren, our people have also committed two evils, for they have forsaken the Lord as the foundation of all good, and therefore they seek to find good in evil and through evil. Can water be found in fire? Or wheat in sand? It cannot be; it truly cannot, my brethren.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Isa 1:2Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me.
Jer 22:29O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.
Jer 6:19Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people, the fruits of their own thoughts: because they have not heard my words, and they have cast away my law.
Mic 6:2Let the mountains hear the judgment of the Lord, and the strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord will enter into judgment with his people, and he will plead against Israel.
Deut 32:1Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.
Matt 27:50And Jesus again crying with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
Matt 27:53And coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, came into the holy city and appeared to many.
Matt 27:45Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over the whole earth, until the ninth hour.