Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

Bible References

Ashamed

Isaiah 30:22
And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!
Isaiah 31:7
For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.
Isaiah 45:16
All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low.
Ezekiel 16:63
So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 36:31
And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria will not be our salvation; we will not go on horses; we will not again say to the work of our hands, You are our gods; for in you there is mercy for the child who has no father.
Romans 6:21
What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

The oaks

Isaiah 57:5
You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?
Hosea 4:13
They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.

The gardens

Isaiah 65:3
A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.
Isaiah 66:17
As for those who keep themselves separate, and make themselves clean in the gardens, going after one in the middle, taking pig's flesh for food, and other disgusting things, such as the mouse: their works and their thoughts will come to an end together, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:20
For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman
Jeremiah 3:6
And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain