Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, ...

Death shall be chosen rather than life By them that should be alive in those times, who would be carried captive into other lands, and be used very hardly.

Jeremiah tells the people to shave off their hair as a sign of mourning for the death that is soon to overtake their nation.

22 дек. 2017 г. · These opening verses of Jeremiah chapter eight remind us of the judgment and disgrace that sin brings upon nations and persons.

Jeremiah 8:3 Wherever I banish them, all the survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life, declares the LORD Almighty.'.

Death will be chosen over life by all the survivors of this evil family, those who remain wherever I have banished them.

The sentiment expressed in this verse reveals the profound despair of the people of Judah as they face the impending doom of their nation.

In this verse, God laments that the people of Judah have chosen death over life by continuing in their wicked ways. The "evil family" referred to in the verse ...

David Guzik commentary on Jeremiah 8, where Jeremiah preaches the stubborness of Judah, who rejected the word of the Lord.

The prophet proceeds, in this chapter, both to magnify and to justify the destruction that God was bringing upon this people, to show how grievous it would be ...