Jeremiah 23:10 meaning and explanation

For the land is full of adulterers— because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up— their course is evil and their power is misused.

Jeremiah 23:10, Berean Standard Bible

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Jeremiah speaks in Jeremiah 23:10, and his grief is personal: his heart is broken and his bones tremble because of the LORD's holy words. The verse names adultery filling the land, which here means both literal sexual sin and the wider betrayal of covenant faithfulness, since prophet and priest alike are called ungodly.

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