Jeremiah 10:25

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

That know

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Eaten

General references

Jeremiah 30:16

Bible References

That know

Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.

Father of righteousness, I have knowledge of you, though the world has not; and to these it is clear that you sent me;

For when I came by, I was looking at the things to which you give worship, and I saw an altar with this writing on it, TO THE GOD OF WHOM THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE. Now, what you, without knowledge, give worship to, I make clear to you.

Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.

Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:

Call

Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.

And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

Eaten

The loud breathing of the horses comes to our ears from Dan: at the sound of the outcry of his war-horses, all the land is shaking with fear; for they have come, and have made a meal of the land and everything in it; the town and the people living in it.

They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.

Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.

When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

As in the day of a holy meeting you have made fears come round me on every side, and no one got away or was kept safe in the day of the Lord's wrath: those who were folded in my arms, whom I took care of, have been sent to their destruction by my hater.

For the Lord has said, Because you have made sounds of joy with your hands, stamping your feet, and have been glad, putting shame with all your soul on the land of Israel;

Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have given up the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their trouble, in the time of the punishment of the end:

Because you were the cause of violent death and because of your cruel behaviour to your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and will be cut off for ever.

And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.

General references

For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your goods by force will undergo the same themselves.