Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
Verse Takeaways
1
From Honor to Shame
Commentators explain that this verse describes a tragic reversal. Israel, once honored as God's chosen people, will face "everlasting reproach" because they rejected and mocked His word. Their unique status would not protect them from the consequences of their impiety; instead, their former glory would make their fall into perpetual shame even more profound.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
Jeremiah
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
4
16th Century
Protestant
What is contained here is that, although the Jews justly gloried for a time in being God's chosen people, this would be of no use to them, as they …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you Which was a just retaliation for reproaching, vilifying, and bante…
Presbyterian
Those are indeed miserable who are forsaken and forgotten by God; and people's jesting at God's judgments will not thwart them. God had taken Israe…
Go ad-free and create your own bookmark library
13th Century
Catholic
1. Here, the prophet threatens those who mock the prophets. Just as they ridiculed Isaiah in his day, saying, “Command, command again, e…
