King James Version
Jeremiah 7:17 in the King James Version says “Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?”
Jeremiah 7:17 · KJV
And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. queen: or, frame, or, workmanship of heaven
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Seest”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“thou not what they do”
H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
“in the cities”
H5892a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
“of Judah”
H3063jehudah (or judah), the name of five israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
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