Jeremiah 13:20 Look up and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock that was entrusted to you, the sheep of which you boasted?

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Look up and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock that was entrusted to you, the sheep of which you boasted?

English Standard Version
“Lift up your eyes and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?

New American Standard Bible
"Lift up your eyes and see Those coming from the north. Where is the flock that was given you, Your beautiful sheep?

King James Bible
Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Look up and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?

International Standard Version
"Look up and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you— your beautiful sheep?

American Standard Version
Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lift up your eyes, and see, you that come from the north: where is the flock that is given thee, thy beautiful cattle?

Darby Bible Translation
Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north. Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?

Young's Literal Translation
Lift up your eyes, and see those coming in from the north, Where is the drove given to thee, thy beautiful flock?

Cross References

Jeremiah 1:15
For, see, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, said the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 6:22
Thus said the LORD, Behold, a people comes from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

Jeremiah 13:17
But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive.

Jeremiah 23:2
Therefore thus said the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, said the LORD.

Jeremiah 25:37
And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

Habakkuk 1:6
For, see, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not their's.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

13:18-27 Here is a message sent to king Jehoiakim, and his queen. Their sorrows would be great indeed. Do they ask, Wherefore come these things upon us? Let them know, it is for their obstinacy in sin. We cannot alter the natural colour of the skin; and so is it morally impossible to reclaim and reform these people. Sin is the blackness of the soul; it is the discolouring of it; we were shapen in it, so that we cannot get clear of it by any power of our own. But Almighty grace is able to change the Ethiopian's skin. Neither natural depravity, nor strong habits of sin, form an obstacle to the working of God, the new-creating Spirit. The Lord asks of Jerusalem, whether she is determined not be made clean. If any poor slave of sin feels that he could as soon change his nature as master his headstrong lusts, let him not despair; for things impossible to men are possible with God. Let us then seek help from Him who is mighty to save.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

20. from … north—Nebuchadnezzar and his hostile army (Jer 1:14; 6:22).

flock … given thee—Jeremiah, amazed at the depopulation caused by Nebuchadnezzar's forces, addresses Jerusalem (a noun of multitude, which accounts for the blending of plural and singular, Your eyes … thee … thy flock), and asks where is the population (Jer 13:17, "flock") which God had given her?