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A most horrible thing has been done by Virgin Israel. <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/18.htm">New Living Translation</a> So this is what the LORD says: “Has anyone ever heard of such a thing, even among the pagan nations? My virgin daughter Israel has done something terrible! <a href="/esv/jeremiah/18.htm">English Standard Version</a> “Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations, Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing. <a href="/bsb/jeremiah/18.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing. <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/18.htm">King James Bible</a> Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. <a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/18.htm">New King James Version</a> Therefore thus says the LORD: “Ask now among the Gentiles, Who has heard such things? The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. <a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/18.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Just ask among the nations, Who ever heard anything like this? The virgin of Israel Has done a most appalling thing. <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/18.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220Therefore thus says the LORD, &#8216Ask now among the nations, Who ever heard the like of this? The virgin of Israel Has done a most appalling thing. <a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/18.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “Therefore thus says the LORD, ‘Ask now among the nations, Who ever heard the like of this? The virgin of Israel Has done a most appalling thing. <a href="/lsb/jeremiah/18.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> “Therefore thus says Yahweh, ‘Ask now among the nations, Who ever heard the like of this? The virgin of Israel Has done a most appalling thing. <a href="/amp/jeremiah/18.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “Therefore thus says the LORD, ‘Ask now among the nations, Who has heard of such things? The virgin Israel Has done a very vile and horrible thing. <a href="/csb/jeremiah/18.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Therefore, this is what the LORD says: Ask among the nations, who has heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most horrible thing. <a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/18.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Therefore, this is what the LORD says: Ask among the nations, Who has heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing. <a href="/asv/jeremiah/18.htm">American Standard Version</a> Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ask ye now among the nations, who hath heard such things; the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. <a href="/cev/jeremiah/18.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> So I, the LORD, command you to ask the nations, and find out if they have ever heard of such a horrible sin as what you have done. <a href="/erv/jeremiah/18.htm">English Revised Version</a> Therefore thus saith the LORD: Ask ye now among the nations, who hath heard such things; the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. <a href="/gwt/jeremiah/18.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> "This is what the LORD says: Ask among the nations if anyone has ever heard anything like this. The people of Israel have done a very horrible thing. <a href="/gnt/jeremiah/18.htm">Good News Translation</a> The LORD says, "Ask every nation if such a thing has ever happened before. The people of Israel have done a terrible thing! <a href="/isv/jeremiah/18.htm">International Standard Version</a> "Therefore, this is what the LORD says: 'Ask the nations. Who has ever heard of anything like this? You have done a most horrible thing, virgin Israel. <a href="/msb/jeremiah/18.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Therefore this is what the LORD says: ?Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing. <a href="/net/jeremiah/18.htm">NET Bible</a> Therefore, the LORD says, "Ask the people of other nations whether they have heard of anything like this. Israel should have been like a virgin. But she has done something utterly revolting! <a href="/nheb/jeremiah/18.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Therefore thus says the LORD: "Ask now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. <a href="/wbt/jeremiah/18.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. <a href="/web/jeremiah/18.htm">World English Bible</a> Therefore Yahweh says: “Ask now among the nations, ‘Who has heard such things?’ The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/18.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Therefore, thus said YHWH: “Now ask among the nations, "" Who has heard such things? The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. <a href="/ylt/jeremiah/18.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Ask, I pray you, among the nations, Who hath heard like these? A very horrible thing hath the virgin of Israel done. <a href="/slt/jeremiah/18.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> For this, thus said Jehovah: Ask now among the nations, who heard like as these things: the virgin of Israel did very horrible things.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/jeremiah/18.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath heard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to excess? <a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/18.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> For this reason, thus says the Lord: “Inquire among the Gentiles. Who has heard of such horrible things as the virgin of Israel has done to excess? <a href="/nabre/jeremiah/18.htm">New American Bible</a> Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations— who has ever heard the like? Truly horrible things virgin Israel has done! <a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/18.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations: Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a most horrible thing.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/18.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the Gentiles, Who has done such things as these? The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. <a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/18.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Because of this, thus says LORD JEHOVAH: “Ask among the nations, ‘Who has done according to these things?’ The virgin of Israel has done great madness!<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/jeremiah/18.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Therefore thus saith the LORD: Ask ye now among the nations, Who hath heard such things; The virgin of Israel hath done A very horrible thing. <a href="/sep/jeremiah/18.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> Therefore thus saith the Lord; Enquire now among the nations, who has heard such very horrible things as the virgin of Israel has done? <a href="/parallel/jeremiah/18-13.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=5431" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/18.htm">The Potter and the Clay</a> …12But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ” 13<a href="/hebrew/3651.htm" title="3651: lā·ḵên (Adv) -- So, thus. From kuwn; properly, set upright; hence just; but usually rightly or so.">Therefore</a> <a href="/hebrew/3541.htm" title="3541: kōh (Adv) -- Thus, here. From the prefix k and huw'; properly, like this, i.e. By implication, thus; also here; or now.">this is what</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: ’ā·mar (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">says:</a> <a href="/hebrew/7592.htm" title="7592: ša·’ă·lū- (V-Qal-Imp-mp) -- To ask, inquire. Or shael; a primitive root; to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand.">“Inquire</a> <a href="/hebrew/4994.htm" title="4994: nā (Interjection) -- I (we) pray, now. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/1471.htm" title="1471: bag·gō·w·yim (Prep-b, Art:: N-mp) -- Rarely goy; apparently from the same root as gevah; a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts.">among the nations:</a> <a href="/hebrew/4310.htm" title="4310: mî (Interrog) -- An interrogative pronoun of persons, as mah is of things, who?; also whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix.">Who</a> <a href="/hebrew/8085.htm" title="8085: šā·ma‘ (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To hear. A primitive root; to hear intelligently.">has ever heard</a> <a href="/hebrew/428.htm" title="428: kā·’êl·leh (Prep-k:: Pro-cp) -- These. Prolonged from 'el; these or those.">things like these?</a> <a href="/hebrew/1330.htm" title="1330: bə·ṯū·laṯ (N-fsc) -- Feminine passive participle of an unused root meaning to separate; a virgin; sometimes a bride; also a city or state.">Virgin</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">Israel</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ‘ā·śə·ṯāh (V-Qal-Perf-3fs) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">has done</a> <a href="/hebrew/3966.htm" title="3966: mə·’ōḏ (Adv) -- Muchness, force, abundance. From the same as 'uwd; properly, vehemence, i.e. vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc.">a most</a> <a href="/hebrew/8186.htm" title="8186: ša·‘ă·ru·riṯ (Adj-fs) -- A horror, horrible thing. Or shanariyriyah; or shaparurith; feminine from sha'ar in the sense of sa'ar; something fearful.">terrible thing.</a> 14Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/isaiah/1-2.htm">Isaiah 1:2-4</a> Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me. / The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.” / Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him. <a href="/hosea/4-1.htm">Hosea 4:1-2</a> Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land! / Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another. <a href="/ezekiel/16-48.htm">Ezekiel 16:48-50</a> As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did as you and your daughters have done. / Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy. / Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them, as you have seen. <a href="/micah/6-1.htm">Micah 6:1-3</a> Hear now what the LORD says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. / Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s indictment, you enduring foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a case against His people, and He will argue it against Israel: / ‘My people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you! <a href="/isaiah/5-1.htm">Isaiah 5:1-7</a> I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. / He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour! / “And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard. ... <a href="/hosea/6-10.htm">Hosea 6:10</a> In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled. <a href="/amos/3-1.htm">Amos 3:1-2</a> Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt: / “Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.” <a href="/isaiah/30-9.htm">Isaiah 30:9-11</a> These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction. / They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions. / Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!” <a href="/ezekiel/5-6.htm">Ezekiel 5:6-7</a> But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’ / Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.’ <a href="/hosea/8-1.htm">Hosea 8:1-3</a> Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law. / Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!” / But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him. <a href="/matthew/11-20.htm">Matthew 11:20-24</a> Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. / “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. / But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. ... <a href="/luke/10-13.htm">Luke 10:13-15</a> Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. / But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. / And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! <a href="/romans/1-21.htm">Romans 1:21-23</a> For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. / Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. <a href="/2_timothy/3-1.htm">2 Timothy 3:1-5</a> But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. / For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, / unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, ... <a href="/hebrews/3-7.htm">Hebrews 3:7-11</a> Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, / do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, / where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. ...</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Therefore thus said the LORD; Ask you now among the heathen, who has heard such things: the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.Ask.<a href="/jeremiah/2-10.htm">Jeremiah 2:10-13</a> For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing… who.<a href="/1_samuel/4-7.htm">1 Samuel 4:7</a> And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.<a href="/isaiah/66-8.htm">Isaiah 66:8</a> Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.<a href="/1_corinthians/5-1.htm">1 Corinthians 5:1</a> It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.virgin.<a href="/jeremiah/2-13.htm">Jeremiah 2:13</a> For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.<a href="/jeremiah/14-17.htm">Jeremiah 14:17</a> Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.<a href="/jeremiah/31-4.htm">Jeremiah 31:4</a> Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.a very.<a href="/jeremiah/5-30.htm">Jeremiah 5:30</a> A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;<a href="/jeremiah/23-14.htm">Jeremiah 23:14</a> I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.<a href="/hosea/6-10.htm">Hosea 6:10</a> I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/5-30.htm">Appalling</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-19.htm">Heard</a> <a href="/jeremiah/10-25.htm">Heathen</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-30.htm">Horrible</a> <a href="/jeremiah/10-21.htm">Inquire</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18-6.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/jeremiah/16-19.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-10.htm">Search</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-30.htm">Shocking</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-17.htm">Virgin</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18-5.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/5-30.htm">Appalling</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18-22.htm">Heard</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-14.htm">Heathen</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-14.htm">Horrible</a> <a href="/jeremiah/21-2.htm">Inquire</a> <a href="/jeremiah/19-3.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-8.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-13.htm">Search</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-30.htm">Shocking</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-4.htm">Virgin</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18-18.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 18</div>1. <a href="/jeremiah/18-1.htm">Under the type of a potter is shown God's absolute power in disposing of nations.</a> 11. <a href="/jeremiah/18-11.htm">Judgments threatened to Judah for her strange revolt.</a> 18. <a href="/jeremiah/18-18.htm">Jeremiah prays against his conspirators.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/jeremiah/18.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/jeremiah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/jeremiah/18.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>Therefore this is what the LORD says: This phrase introduces a direct message from God, emphasizing divine authority. In the prophetic books, such declarations often precede a pronouncement of judgment or a call to repentance. It underscores the seriousness of the message and the need for the audience to pay attention.Inquire among the nations: This suggests a call to look beyond Israel to the surrounding nations for comparison. It implies that the actions of Israel are so unprecedented that even pagan nations would find them shocking. This reflects the cultural context where nations were often compared to highlight Israel's unique relationship with God and their failure to uphold it.Who has ever heard things like these? This rhetorical question emphasizes the gravity and uniqueness of Israel's sin. It suggests that the behavior of Israel is unparalleled and astonishing, even to those outside the covenant community. This phrase serves to highlight the depth of Israel's apostasy and rebellion against God.Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing: The term "Virgin Israel" is used ironically here. It traditionally signifies purity and a special, untainted relationship with God, akin to a bride. However, Israel's actions have defiled this status. The "most terrible thing" refers to their idolatry and covenant unfaithfulness, which are seen as spiritual adultery. This connects to other scriptures where Israel is depicted as an unfaithful spouse (e.g., <a href="/hosea/1.htm">Hosea 1-3</a>). The imagery also foreshadows the need for redemption and restoration, themes fulfilled in the New Testament through Christ's redemptive work.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a> The covenant God of Israel, who is speaking through the prophet Jeremiah. 2. <a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a> A major prophet in the Old Testament, called by God to deliver messages of warning and hope to the people of Judah. 3. <a href="/topical/v/virgin_israel.htm">Virgin Israel</a> A metaphorical reference to the nation of Israel, emphasizing its initial purity and covenant relationship with God. 4. <a href="/topical/t/the_nations.htm">The Nations</a> Refers to the surrounding peoples and countries who are called to witness the unprecedented actions of Israel. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_terrible_thing.htm">The Terrible Thing</a> The idolatry and unfaithfulness of Israel, which is shocking even to the pagan nations.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_seriousness_of_idolatry.htm">The Seriousness of Idolatry</a> Idolatry is not just a minor offense; it is a grave sin that breaks the covenant relationship with God. It is described as a "terrible thing" because it represents a profound betrayal. <a href="/topical/t/the_witness_of_the_nations.htm">The Witness of the Nations</a> Israel's actions were so shocking that even the pagan nations, who did not know God, could recognize the severity of their sin. Our actions as believers are observed by the world and should reflect our commitment to God. <a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_repentance.htm">The Call to Repentance</a> The context of <a href="/bsb/jeremiah/18.htm">Jeremiah 18</a> is a call to repentance. God desires for His people to turn back to Him, emphasizing His mercy and willingness to forgive. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_spiritual_purity.htm">The Importance of Spiritual Purity</a> The term "Virgin Israel" highlights the expectation of purity and faithfulness in our relationship with God. We are called to maintain spiritual integrity and avoid compromising with worldly influences. <a href="/topical/g/god's_righteous_judgment.htm">God's Righteous Judgment</a> The passage underscores that God is just in His judgments. When His people turn away, He is right to call them to account, but He also provides a way back through repentance.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_18.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 18</a> <a href="/q/bible's_view_on_family_conflict.htm">What Old Testament prophecies predict the Messiah?</a> <a href="/q/why_is_moab's_fate_sealed_in_jer._48_1-39.htm">Why does Jeremiah 48:1-39 repeatedly portray divine retaliation against Moab with no apparent path for redemption?</a> <a href="/q/why_did_prophets_differ_from_moses.htm">If Deuteronomy 18:15 refers to a 'prophet like Moses,' why did subsequent prophets have different messages and methods?</a> <a href="/q/why_does_god_accept_sacrifices.htm">If God is all-good, why does He accept human sacrifices in some cases (Judges 11:30-39)?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/18.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(13) Ask ye now among the heathen.--The appeal of <a href="/context/jeremiah/2-10.htm" title="For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.">Jeremiah 2:10-11</a> is renewed. Judah had not been true, even as heathen nations were true, to its inherited faith and worship. The virgin daughter of Israel (<a href="/isaiah/1-8.htm" title="And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.">Isaiah 1:8</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/14-17.htm" title="Therefore you shall say this word to them; Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.">Jeremiah 14:17</a>)--the epithet is emphasised, as contrasted with the shame that follows--had fallen from a greater height to a profounder depth of debasement.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/18.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 13. - Will a man leave the anew of Lebanon, etc.? This passage is unusually obscure. Literally we must, it would seem, render, Doth the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field (or possibly, cease to flow from the rock unto the field)? This is explained as pointing a contrast to the infidelity of God's people. "The snow never leaves the summit of Lebanon; the waters which take their rise therein never dry up; but my people have forgotten the law of their being, the source of their prosperity." The rendering of the first clause is, however, grammatically dubious (there is no example of this construction of 'azabh), and all the old versions point to (or at least favor) a reading, Shaddai (the Almighty) instead of sadai (the field). If we keep the text, we must explain "the rock of the field" on the analogy of "my mountain in the field" (<a href="/jeremiah/17-3.htm">Jeremiah 17:3</a>), as meaning "the rock which commands a wide prospect over the open lowland country," i.e. Mount Lebanon. The cold flowing waters; i.e. the numerous "streams from Lebanon," referred to in <a href="/songs/4-15.htm">Song of Solomon 4:15</a>. That come from another place; i.e. whoso sources are foreign. But as this does not suit the connection, it is better to take the Hebrew word (zarim), usually rendered "foreign," in the sense of "pressing or hurrying along," with Ewald, Graf, and virtually Henderson. It thus becomes descriptive of these streams "as contracted within narrow channels while descending through the gorges and defiles of the rocks." Camp. "like an oppressing stream," <a href="/isaiah/59-19.htm">Isaiah 59:19</a> (a cognate verb). Be forsaken. The Hebrew text has "be plucked up' (i.e. destroyed?); but as this is unsuitable, we must transpose two letters (as in not a few other cases), and render, dry up. So Gesenius, Graf, Keil, Delitzsch, and Payne Smith. <a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/18-13.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Therefore, לָכֵ֗ן (lā·ḵên) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3651.htm">Strong's 3651: </a> So -- thus this is what כֹּ֚ה (kōh) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3541.htm">Strong's 3541: </a> Like this, thus, here, now the LORD יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel says: אָמַ֣ר (’ā·mar) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say “Inquire שַֽׁאֲלוּ־ (ša·’ă·lū-) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7592.htm">Strong's 7592: </a> To inquire, to request, to demand among the nations: בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם (bag·gō·w·yim) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1471.htm">Strong's 1471: </a> A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts Who מִ֥י (mî) Interrogative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4310.htm">Strong's 4310: </a> Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix has ever heard שָׁמַ֖ע (šā·ma‘) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8085.htm">Strong's 8085: </a> To hear intelligently things like these? כָּאֵ֑לֶּה (kā·’êl·leh) Preposition-k | Pronoun - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_428.htm">Strong's 428: </a> These, those Virgin בְּתוּלַ֖ת (bə·ṯū·laṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1330.htm">Strong's 1330: </a> A virgin, sometimes, a bride Israel יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc has done עָשְׂתָ֣ה (‘ā·śə·ṯāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> To do, make a most מְאֹ֔ד (mə·’ōḏ) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3966.htm">Strong's 3966: </a> Vehemence, vehemently, wholly, speedily terrible thing. שַֽׁעֲרֻרִת֙ (ša·‘ă·ru·riṯ) Adjective - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8186.htm">Strong's 8186: </a> A horror, horrible thing <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/18-13.htm">Jeremiah 18:13 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/18-13.htm">Jeremiah 18:13 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/jeremiah/18-13.htm">Jeremiah 18:13 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/18-13.htm">Jeremiah 18:13 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/18-13.htm">Jeremiah 18:13 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/18-13.htm">Jeremiah 18:13 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/18-13.htm">Jeremiah 18:13 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/18-13.htm">Jeremiah 18:13 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/18-13.htm">Jeremiah 18:13 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/jeremiah/18-13.htm">Jeremiah 18:13 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18-13.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 18:13 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask you now (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/18-12.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 18:12"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 18:12" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/18-14.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 18:14"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 18:14" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>