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, So says Jehovah, I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your betrothals, when you went after Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Turn, O backsliding sons, says Jehovah; for I am married to 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 inheritance. I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.

And Jehovah said to me, Go again. Love a woman beloved by a friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of Jehovah toward the sons of Israel, who turn to other gods, and love raisin-cakes of grapes.

And the king coming in to look over the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment.

Indeed as regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes. But as regards 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 sent her away and gave a bill of divorce to her, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she went and whored, she also.

Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot do any good.

Then Jehovah said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My soul could not be toward this people. Send them out of My sight, and let them go out.

But to the wicked, God says, What is it to you, to declare My Precepts, and to take up My covenant in your mouth?

The sacrifice of the wicked is a hateful thing to Jehovah, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

The sacrifice of the wicked is hateful to God; how much more when he brings it with a wicked mind?

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is a hateful thing.

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me? says Jehovah; I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

So says Jehovah, Where is your mother's bill of divorce, whom I have put away? Or to which of My creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother is put away for your sins.

Seeing

They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him and will be for another man, will he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you play the harlot with many lovers; yet come back to Me, says Jehovah.

You have built your high place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty to be despised, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and have multiplied your fornications.

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

The holy

If one carries holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and touches his skirt to bread, or boiled food, or wine, or oil, or any food, will it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

To the pure all things are pure. But to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

Thou doest evil

who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversities of the wicked;

To work out evil devices is as laughter to a fool; so wisdom is to a man of understanding.

or like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death.

Charity does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth,

But now you boast in your presumptions. All such boasting is evil.