Jeremiah 50:33

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

And all

They refused

General references

Deuteronomy 30:7

Proverbs 23:11

Jeremiah 51:24

Bible References

And all

All who find them devour them, but their enemies say, "We're not guilty, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their ancestors.'

"King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me. He set me down like an empty vessel. He swallowed me like a monster, and filled his belly with my delicacies. Then he washed me away.

who made the world like a desert, who destroyed its cities, who would not open the jails for his prisoners?'

I was angry with my people, and I desecrated my heritage, and gave them into your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the aged you laid your yoke most heavily.

"Can they seize plunder from warriors, or can the captives of tyrants be rescued?

But I will put it into the hands of those who tormented and oppressed you, those who said to you, "Lie down, so we can step over you,' so that you had to make your back like the ground, and like a street for them to walk over."

For this is what the LORD says: "My people went down long ago into Egypt to live there; the Assyrian, too, has oppressed them without cause.

I am deeply angry with the nations who are complacent, with whom I was only a little displeased but they made things worse!"

They refused

You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes by proclaiming release for one another, and you made a covenant before me in the house that is called by my name.

Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD that I should listen to him and let Israel go? I don't know about the LORD, nor will I let Israel go!"

And if you refuse to let them go, then I'm going to strike all your territory with frogs.

But if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,

who made the world like a desert, who destroyed its cities, who would not open the jails for his prisoners?'

Isn't this the fast that I have been choosing: to loose the bonds of injustice, and to untie the cords of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

General references

Then the LORD your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate and persecute you."

for strong is their Redeemer who will take up their case against you.

"Before your eyes I'll repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all the evil that they did in Zion," declares the LORD.