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 in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD; I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your betrothal, when you followed me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Turn, O backsliding children, says the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one from a city, and two from 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 said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her lover, and an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.

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

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

To do

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

Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

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

But unto the wicked God says, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your 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 a wicked mind?

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? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of male goats.

Thus says the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have you sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

Seeing

They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man's, may he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD.

You have built your high place at the head of every street, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have offered yourself to everyone that passed by, and multiplied your harlotries.

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 does touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.

Thou doest evil

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of the wicked;

It is as sport to a fool to do wrong: but a man of understanding has wisdom.

As a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,

Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.