Jeremiah 44:6

6 ¹Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, ²and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day.

Jeremiah 44:6 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 44:6

Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth
Like melted metal, scalding lead, liquefied pitch, or anything of a bituminous and sulphurous nature, which spreads, is consuming, and very intolerable; see ( Jeremiah 42:18 ) ; and was kindled in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of
Jerusalem;
which, like a fire, burnt up and destroyed these cities, and particularly the large and spacious city of Jerusalem: and they are wasted [and] desolate, as at this day;
now lie in ruins, as may be seen by everyone; the thing is notorious; this is their present case; they are become desolate, and so continue.

Jeremiah 44:6 In-Context

4 Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, 'Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!'

5 But they did not listen or incline their ear, to turn from their evil and make no offerings to other gods.

6 Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day.

7 And now thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant?

8 Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?

Cross References

• 1. See Jeremiah 7:20
• 2. See Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 9:11