Jeremiah 16:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

My strength

Gentiles

Wherein

Jeremiah 2:11

Jeremiah 10:5

Isaiah 44:10

General references

Jonah 2:8

Romans 3:29

Bible References

My strength

Don't be a terror to me. You are my refuge in a day of trouble.

He said: "I love you, Lord, my strength.

May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.

For he will conceal me in his shelter on the day of evil; He will hide me in a secluded chamber within his tent; He will place me on a high rock.

God is our refuge and strength, a great help in times of distress.

He alone is my rock, my deliverance, and my high tower; nothing will shake me.

The one who lives in the shelter of the Most High, who rests in the shadow of the Almighty,

Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for battle and my fingers for warfare,

The name of the LORD is a strong tower; a righteous person rushes to it and is lifted up above the danger.

For you have been a stronghold for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat for the blistering attack from the ruthless is like a rainstorm beating against a wall,

Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a hiding place from storms, like streams of water in the desert, in the shadow of a great rock in an exhausted land.

"Therefore you are to say, "This is what the Lord GOD says, "Although I've removed them far away to live among the nations, and although I've scattered them throughout the earth, yet I've continued to be their sanctuary, even for the short time that they will be living in the lands to which they've gone."'

The LORD is good a refuge in troubled times. He knows those who are confiding in him.

The LORD God is my strength he will make my feet like those of a deer, equipping me to tread on my mountain heights. For the choir director: On my stringed instruments.

Gentiles

"And in those days when you increase in numbers and multiply in the land," declares the LORD, "people will no longer say, "The Ark of the Covenant of the LORD,' and it won't come to mind, and they won't remember it or miss it, nor will it be made again.

All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD; all the families of the nations will bow in submission to the LORD.

Let your ways be known by all the nations of the earth, along with your deliverance.

Envoys will come from Egypt. Let the Ethiopians stretch out their hands to God.

May he rule from sea to sea, from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.

All the nations that you have established will come and worship you, my Lord. They will honor your name.

"It will come about in the last days that the mountain that is the LORD's Temple will be established as the highest of mountains, and will be raised above the hills; all the nations will stream to it.

They will neither harm nor destroy on my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea."

he says: "It is too small a thing for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Israel and bring back those of Jacob I have preserved. I'll also make you as a light to the nations, to be my salvation to the ends of the earth.

"Arise, shine! For your light has come; the glory of the LORD has risen upon you.

The nations will see your vindication, and all the kings your glory; and people will call you by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.

"But in the last days it will come about that the Temple Mount of the LORD will be firmly set as the leading mountain. It will be exalted above its surrounding hills, and people will stream toward it.

"Many nations will cling to the LORD at that time and will become my people. I will live in your midst, and you will know that the LORD of the Heavenly Armies has sent me to you.

"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "In the future, people will come, including residents of many cities,

Even so, from where the sun rises to where it sets my name will be great among the Gentiles. Incense will be brought to me everywhere, along with pure offerings, because my name will be great among the Gentiles," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

After these things, I looked, and there was a crowd so large that no one was able to count it! They were from every nation, tribe, people, and language. They were standing in front of the throne and the lamb and were wearing white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

When the seventh angel blew his trumpet, there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The world's kingdom has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will rule forever and ever."

Wherein

Has a nation ever changed gods when they aren't even gods? But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.

Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field. They can't speak! They must always be carried because they can't walk! Don't be afraid of them because they can do no harm, nor can they do any good."

Who would shape a god or cast an image that profits nothing?

General references

Those who cling to vain idols leave behind the gracious love that could have been theirs.

Is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the gentiles, too? Yes, of the gentiles, too,