Jeremiah 2:12 Douay-Rheims

Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1871 Reformed

Impassioned personification (Isa 1:2). horribly afraid--rather, be horrified." be . . . very desolate--rather, "be exceedingly aghast" at the monstrous spectacle. Literally, "to be dried up," or "devastated," (places devastated have such an unsightly look) [MAURER].

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