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Jeremiah 8:9 Cross-References
Explore 12 cross-references for Jeremiah 8:9 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Jeremiah chapter 8 verse 9 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them? The wise: or, Have they been ashamed, etc what: Heb. the wisdom of what thing”
Jeremiah 8:9 (KJV)
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Commentary on Jeremiah 8:9
This verse pronounces judgment on the self-proclaimed wise: 'The wise men are ashamed' (boshu chakamim, בֹּשׁוּ חֲכָמִים). The Hebrew bosh (בּוֹשׁ) denotes public humiliation, disappointed expectation, and covenant curse. 'They are dismayed and taken' adds chatat (חָתַת, shattered, terrified) and lakad (לָכַד, captured, snared)—the wise are caught in their own trap. 'Lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD' uses ma'as (מָאַס, to despise, reject with contempt) with debar-YHWH (דְּבַר־יְהוָה). This rejection isn't ignorance but deliberate contempt. 'And what wisdom is in them?' The rhetorica...
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Cross-References for Jeremiah 8:9
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“they were not at all ashamed”
“for your commandments are always with me.”
“So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.”
“I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”
“who shall hear all these statutes”
“earth: behold”
“but to us who are saved it is the power of God.”
“and rumor shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest”
“restoring the soul. Yahweh's testimony is sure”
“surely there is no morning for them.”