Jeremiah 2:37Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
For from thence thou shalt go, and thy hand shall be upon thy head: for the Lord hath destroyed thy trust, and thou shalt have nothing prosperous therein.
גַּ֣ם מֵאֵ֥ת זֶה֙ תֵּֽצְאִ֔י וְיָדַ֖יִךְ עַל־רֹאשֵׁ֑ךְ כִּֽי־מָאַ֤ס יְהֹוָה֙ בְּמִבְטַחַ֔יִךְ וְלֹ֥א תַצְלִ֖יחִי לָהֶֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 2 Sam 13:19And she put ashes on her head, and rent her long robe and laid her hands upon her head, and went on crying.
- Ezek 17:15But he hath revolted from him and sent ambassadors to Egypt, that it might give him horses, and much people. And shall he that hath done thus prosper, or be saved? and shall he escape that hath broken the covenant?
- Ezek 17:20And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my net: and I will bring him into Babylon, and will judge him there for the transgression by which he hath despised me.
- Jer 17:5Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
- Jer 37:7And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
- Jer 37:10Now when the army of the Chaldeans was gone away from Jerusalem, because of Pharao's army,
- Isa 10:4That you be not bowed down under the bond, and fall with the slain? In all these things his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
- Num 14:41And Moses said to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord, which shall not succeed prosperously with you?