Jeremiah 11:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

My

To do

Seeing

Jeremiah 3:1

Ezekiel 16:25

Ezekiel 23:2

The holy

Haggai 2:12

Titus 1:15

Thou doest evil

James 4:16

Bible References

My

Go and cry out in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD: I remember thee, the mercy of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou didst go after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Turn, O rebellious sons, said the LORD; for I am your Lord, and I will take you one of a city and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

I have forsaken my house, I have left my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

Then the LORD said unto me again, Go, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the sons of Israel, who look to other gods and love flagons of wine.

And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who did not have on a wedding garment,

So that, as concerning the gospel, I have them for enemies for your sakes; but as touching the election of God, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

To do

And I saw when for all the causes by which rebellious Israel committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce; yet her rebellious sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

Behold, ye trust in lying words that cannot profit.

Then the LORD said unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my will would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

But unto the wicked God saith, What part hast thou to declare my statutes or that thou should take my covenant in thy mouth?

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination; how much more, when he brings it with lewdness?

He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? shall the LORD say. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he goats.

Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities ye are sold, and for your rebellions was your mother put away,

Seeing

They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, shall he return unto her again? Is she not a land that is now completely polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, said the LORD.

Thou hast built thy altar at every head of every way and hast made thy beauty abominable and hast opened thy thighs to every one that passed by and multiplied thy whoredoms.

Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

The holy

If one bears holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt touches bread or pottage or wine, or oil or any food, shall it be made holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

For unto the pure all things are pure, but unto those that are defiled and unfaithful, nothing is pure, but even their soul and conscience is defiled.

Thou doest evil

who rejoice to do evil and delight in wicked perversion,

To make an abomination is as sport to the fool, but wisdom is recreation to the man of intelligence.

As a mad man who casts firebrands, arrows, and death,

rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

But now ye boast in your arrogance; all such glory is evil.