Jeremiah 2:12
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
KJV
Obstupescite, cæli, super hoc, et portæ ejus, desolamini vehementer, dicit Dominus.
Vulgate
ἐξέστη ὁ οὐρανὸς ἐπὶ τούτῳ καὶ ἔφριξεν ἐπὶ πλεῖον σφόδρα, λέγει Κύριος.
LXX
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah.
ASV
שֹׁ֥מּוּ שָׁמַ֖יִם עַל זֹ֑את וְ/שַׂעֲר֛וּ חָרְב֥וּ מְאֹ֖ד נְאֻם יְהוָֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
הֶחֱרִ֜יבוּ
hchrybv
verb · 42×
זֹּ֔את
z't
pronoun · 604×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יִשְׂתָּעֵ֨ר
ysht'r
verb · 8×
מְאֹֽד
m'd
noun · 297×
נְאֻם
n'm
noun · 374×
נָשַׁ֨מּוּ֙
nshmv
verb · 86×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
שָּׁמַ֔יִם
shmym
noun · 419×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. For look not to this only, that He cast him out of paradise, but mark also the gain that arose from thence. For after having cast him out of paradise, and having wrought those countless good works, and having accomplished His various dispensations, He sent even His own Son for the sake of them that had been benefited by Him and were hating Him, and opened Heaven to us, and u…
7. Who is there that hears all this, nay, the tune of the Thalia, but must hate, and justly hate, this Arius jesting on such matters as on a stage ? Who but must regard him, when he pretends to name God and speak of God, but as the serpent counselling the woman? Who, on reading what follows in his work, but must discern in his irreligious doctrine that error, into which by his …
Cross-references
- Deut 4:26 — I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shal
- Deut 30:19 — I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
- Deut 32:1 — Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
- Deut 32:1 — Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
- Eccl 7:29 — Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
- Gal 1:6 — I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
- Isa 1:2 — Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
- Isa 29:9 — Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
- Jer 6:19 — Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
- Jer 22:29 — O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
- Matt 27:45 — Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
- Matt 27:50 — Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
- Mic 6:2 — Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD’s controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.