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Jeremiah 32:30

in Jeremiah 32

For the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith Jehovah.

KJV

For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the Lord.

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This verse in Jeremiah 32

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

(Verse 30) For the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel continually (or alone) did evil in my sight from their youth. The Hebrew word 'Ach' (), Aquila interpreted as 'plēn', which signifies a conjunction, however. The first edition of Symmachus, as well as the Seventy, and Theodotion, interpreted it as 'diolon'. We now follow the latter, so that we may say 'continually'. Let us therefore say first according to the Hebrew, the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah continuously doing evil.

This site's exposition

Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying

on Jeremiah 32:26-35

The Lord answers Jeremiah's own question back to him, is there any thing too hard for me?, the field's purchase now set against the city's certain fall by the same power that makes both possible. The indictment names the specific sin repeatedly, the high places of Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, sons and daughters passed through the fire unto Molech, an abomination the text states plainly the Lord never commanded nor imagined. The valley named here is the same Hinnom the closing verses of chapter 31 declare consecrated ground, judgment's site becoming the site of holiness in the very next chapter's promise.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil - They have all been transgressors from their earliest history. For the children of Israel - The ten tribes. Have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands - They have been sinners beyond all others, being excessive idolaters. Their hands have formed the objects of their worship.

The words behind it

21 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • הָי֨וּthey have been

    hayuH1961 →3559 times

  • בְנֵֽי־[the] people of

    venei-H1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֜לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וּבְנֵ֣יand [the] people of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יְהוּדָ֗הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • אַ֣ךְonly

    ʾakhH389 →161 times

  • עֹשִׂ֥יםdoing

    ʾosimH6213 →2628 times

  • הָרַ֛עthe evil

    hara'H7451 →662 times

  • בְּעֵינַ֖יin view my

    beeinaiH5869 →887 times

  • מִנְּעֻרֹֽתֵיהֶ֑םsince youth<s> their

    mineuroteihemH5271 →47 times

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • בְנֵֽי־[the] people of

    venei-H1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֗לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • אַ֣ךְonly

    ʾakhH389 →161 times

  • מַכְעִסִ֥ים[are] provoking to anger

    makhisimH3707 →54 times

  • אֹתִ֛י<obj.> me

    ʾotiH853 →10935 times

  • בְּמַעֲשֵׂ֥הby [the] work of

    bemaasehH4639 →236 times

  • יְדֵיהֶ֖םhands their

    yedeihemH3027 →1618 times

  • נְאֻם־[the] utterance of

    neum-H5002 →376 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Jeremiah 22:21I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.6 worksJeremiah 7:22–26For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,4 worksDeuteronomy 9:7–12Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.3 worksIsaiah 63:10But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.3 worksGenesis 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.3 worksJeremiah 25:7‘But to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘so you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.’3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Jeremiah 3:25Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”3 worksJeremiah 2:7I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.3 worksNehemiah 9:16–37But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.2 worksDeuteronomy 9:22–24You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.2 worksEzekiel 20:8But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.2 worksPsalms 106:6–7We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.2 worksJeremiah 8:19Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”2 worksActs 7:51–53You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.2 worksEzekiel 16:15–22But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking.2 worksEzekiel 23:3and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.2 worksEzekiel 20:28When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.2 worksEzekiel 23:43–44Then I said of her who had grown old in adulteries: ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is!’2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 8:21

    When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth.…

    it leads to

    • 2 Corinthians 2:15

      For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.

    • Ephesians 5:2

      and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

    • Genesis 6:5

      Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

    • Jeremiah 17:9

      The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

  • Through

    Isaiah 63:10

    But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.

    it leads to

    • Acts 7:51

      You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

    • Ephesians 4:30

      And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

    • Psalms 78:56

      But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

    • Psalms 78:40

      How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 32 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah and Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah.

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