Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

Gone away backward

Bible References

Ah sinful

Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all of you who are overworked and overburdened and I will give you rest [i.e., spiritual refreshment].
Acts 7:51
You people are unbending and unrepentant in your hearts and [unwilling to listen with] your ears. You are always resisting [the desires of] the Holy Spirit just like your forefathers did.
Revelation 18:5
For her sins have piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her evil deeds.

A seed

Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to be immersed, John said to them, "You children of snakes, who warned you to run away from the coming wrath [of God]?
Matthew 23:33
You snakes! You children of snakes! How do you expect to escape being judged [and condemned] in hell?

Provoked

1 Corinthians 10:22
Or, are we [trying to] make the Lord jealous [by doing this]? [Do we think] we are stronger that He is?

Gone away backward

Romans 8:7
This is because the one whose mind is [controlled] by the flesh is an enemy of God; for he is not obedient to God's law, and in fact, cannot obey it.
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in [spite of] my sufferings for your sake, and I am filling up [i.e., completing] in my physical body what was lacking in the afflictions Christ endured for His body's sake, the church.