Jeremiah 5:30

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Jer 23:14 : 14 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Hos 6:10 : 10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is [found] in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Isa 1:2 : 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
Jer 2:12 : 12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah.

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Jer 5:29
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29Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jer 5:31
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31the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Jer 5:9
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9Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jer 1:14
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14Then Jehovah said unto me, Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
Jer 2:12
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12Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah.
Ezek 7:5
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5Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil; behold, it cometh.
Jer 5:11
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11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah.
Jer 5:20
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20Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
Hos 6:10
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10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is [found] in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Jer 18:13
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13Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ask ye now among the nations, who hath heard such things; the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
Jer 44:22
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22so that Jehovah could not longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
Jer 9:9
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9Shall I not visit them for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Ezek 5:9
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9And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.
Ezek 9:9
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9Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of wresting [of judgment]: for they say, Jehovah hath forsaken the land, and Jehovah seeth not.
Ezek 5:14-15
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14Moreover I will make thee a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
15So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments on thee in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Jehovah, have spoken it;)
2 Chr 29:8
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8Wherefore the wrath of Jehovah was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
Jer 7:30
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30For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, saith Jehovah: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
2 Kgs 22:16
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16Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read.
Ps 55:5
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5Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me.
Jer 4:9
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9And it shall come to pass at that day, saith Jehovah, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
2 Kgs 21:12
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12therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Behold, I bring such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
Jer 16:10
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Jer 50:22
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22A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Hab 1:5
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5Behold ye among the nations, and look, and wonder marvellously; for I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.
Jer 18:16
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16to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
Jer 25:32
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32Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
Mic 2:3
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3Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.
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10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.
11Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.
Jer 23:10
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10For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right;
Deut 17:4
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Jer 30:5
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5For thus saith Jehovah: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
Zeph 3:4
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4Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
Amos 5:7
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7Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
Lev 18:25
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25And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Isa 5:9
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9In mine ears [saith] Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
Isa 5:30
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30And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.
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Jer 12:11
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Hos 4:1
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1Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Ps 107:34
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Jer 4:18
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Jer 2:7
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Isa 5:25
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Jer 25:37
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