Jeremiah 18:13
Good News Translation
The LORD says, "Ask every nation if such a thing has ever happened before. The people of Israel have done a terrible thing!

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations: Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a most horrible thing.

Contemporary English Version
So I, the LORD, command you to ask the nations, and find out if they have ever heard of such a horrible sin as what you have done.

New American Bible
Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations— who has ever heard the like? Truly horrible things virgin Israel has done!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath heard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to excess?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath heard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to excess?

Ask.

Jeremiah 2:10-13 Pass over to the isles of Cethim, and see: and send into Cedar, and consider diligently: and see if there hath been done any thing like this. . . .

who.

1 Samuel 4:7 And the Philistines were afraid, saying: God is come into the camp. And sighing, they said:

Isaiah 66:8 Who hath ever heard such a thing? and who hath seen the like to this? shall the earth bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be brought forth at once, because Sion hath been in labour, and hath brought forth her children?

1 Corinthians 5:1 It is absolutely heard that there is fornication among you and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens: that one should have his father's wife.

virgin.

Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Jeremiah 14:17 And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the virgin daughter of my people is afflicted with a great affliction, with an exceeding grievous evil.

Jeremiah 31:4 And I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy timbrels, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

Isaiah 36:22 And Eliacim the son of Helcias, that was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the recorder, went in to Ezechias with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rabsaces.

Lamentations 1:15 Samech. The Lord hath taken away all my mighty men out of the midst of me: he hath called against me the time, to destroy my chosen men: the Lord hath trodden the winepress for the virgin daughter of Juda.

a very.

Jeremiah 5:30 Astonishing and wonderful things have been done in the land.

Jeremiah 23:14 And I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of lying in the prophets of Jerusalem: and they strengthened the hands of the wicked, that no man should return from his evil doings, they are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.

Hosea 6:10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.

Context
The Potter and the Clay
12And they said; We have no hopes: for we will go after our own thoughts, and we will do every one according to the perverseness of his evil heart. 13Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath heard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to excess?14Shall the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the field? or can the cold waters that gush out and run down, be taken away?…
Cross References
Isaiah 66:8
Who hath ever heard such a thing? and who hath seen the like to this? shall the earth bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be brought forth at once, because Sion hath been in labour, and hath brought forth her children?

Jeremiah 2:10
Pass over to the isles of Cethim, and see: and send into Cedar, and consider diligently: and see if there hath been done any thing like this.

Jeremiah 2:11
If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory into an idol.

Jeremiah 5:30
Astonishing and wonderful things have been done in the land.

Jeremiah 14:17
And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the virgin daughter of my people is afflicted with a great affliction, with an exceeding grievous evil.

Jeremiah 18:14
Shall the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the field? or can the cold waters that gush out and run down, be taken away?

Jeremiah 23:14
And I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of lying in the prophets of Jerusalem: and they strengthened the hands of the wicked, that no man should return from his evil doings, they are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.

Jeremiah 31:4
And I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy timbrels, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

Hosea 6:10
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.

Jeremiah 18:12
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