King James Version
Jeremiah 3:24 in the King James Version says “For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their dau...” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.”
Jeremiah 3:24 · KJV
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“For shame”
H1322shame (the feeling and the condition, as well as its cause); by implication (specifically) an idol
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“of our fathers”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
“from our youth”
H5271(only in plural collective or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“their flocks”
H6629a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and their herds”
H1241a beeve or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“their sons”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and their daughters”
H1323a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
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