Jeremiah 5:30

30 A horrible and ugly thing is committed in the land:

Jeremiah 5:30 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 5:30

A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land.
] What may justly raise admiration in some, and horror in others, or both in all: it is so amazing that it can hardly be conceived of, and so shameful and filthy as not to be expressed; what it is follows:

Jeremiah 5:30 In-Context

28 They are become fat; they shine; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they did not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless; with all this they made themselves prosperous; and they did not judge the cause of the poor.

29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

30 A horrible and ugly thing is committed in the land:

31 The prophets prophesied falsely, and the priests bore rule by their hands; and my people love to have it so. What will ye do in the end thereof?