Jeremiah 5:19 meaning and explanation
And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”
Jeremiah 5:19, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
Jeremiah 5 is a covenant lawsuit: the LORD speaks through the prophet to Judah, charging the whole society, poor and powerful alike, with injustice, false worship and refusal to repent. In verse 19 the people are imagined asking why disaster has come, as if they were innocent.
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