Jeremiah 3:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

Acknowledge

And hast scattered

Jeremiah 3:2

Jeremiah 2:20

Ezekiel 16:15

General references

Isaiah 1:19

Isaiah 17:7

Bible References

Acknowledge

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus , Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke : turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.

And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary unto me,

And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither Jehovah thy God hath driven thee,

He singeth before men, and saith, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it profited me not:

He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper: But whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight:

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

And hast scattered

Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.

But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by; his it was.

General references

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

In that day shall men look unto their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.