Jeremiah 2:12 - Exposition
Be astonished . "Be appalled" would more nearly express the force of the Hebrew (so Jeremiah 18:16 ; Jeremiah 19:8 ). Be ye very desolate ; literally, become dry; i . e . not so much "shrivel and roll up" (on the analogy of Isaiah 34:4 ), as "become stiff with horror."
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