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 unto me, all ye who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Acts 7:51
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do ye.
Revelation 18:5
because her sins have mounted up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

A seed

Matthew 3:7
And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said unto them; O generations of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Matthew 23:33
Ye serpents, generations of vipers, how can you escape from the judgment of hell?

Provoked

1 Corinthians 10:22
Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? whether are we stronger than he?

Gone away backward

Romans 8:7
Therefore the mind of depravity is enmity toward God: for it is not subordinated to the law of God, for it is not able so to be.
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in sufferings in your behalf, and am filling up the residue of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh in behalf of his body, which is the church;