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 toil and are burdened, and I will let you rest.
Acts 7:51
You stubborn people, with heathen hearts and ears, you are always opposing the holy Spirit, just as your forefathers did!
Revelation 18:5
For her sins are piled up to the sky, and God has remembered her crimes.

A seed

Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to escape from the wrath that is coming?
Matthew 23:33
You serpents! You brood of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to the pit?

Provoked

1 Corinthians 10:22
Or are we trying to arouse the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he is?

Gone away backward

Romans 8:7
For to be physically minded means hostility to God, for it refuses to obey God's law, indeed it cannot obey it.
Colossians 1:24
At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body.