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 thy way, cry in the ears of Jerusalem, and say, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: I remember thee for the kindness of thy youth, and because of thy steadfast love: in that thou followedst me through the wilderness, in an untilled land.

O ye shrinking children, turn again, sayeth the LORD: and I will be married with you. For I will take one out of the city, and two out of one generation from among you, and bring you out of Zion:

As for me, say I, I have forsaken mine own dwelling place, and left mine heritage. My life also that I love so well, have I given into the hands of mine enemies.

Then said the LORD to me, "Go yet thy way and vow an adulterous woman, whom thy neighbour loveth as the LORD doth the children of Israel: howbeit, they have respect to strange gods, and love the wine cans."

Then the King came in, to visit the guests, and spied there a man which had not on a wedding garment,

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are loved for the fathers' sake.

To do

Namely, that after I had well seen the adultery of the shrinking harlot Israel, I put her away, and gave her a bill of divorcement. For all this, her unfaithful sister Judah was not ashamed, but went back and played the whore also.

But take heed: ye trust in counsels that beguile you and do you no good.

Then spake the LORD unto me, and said, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet have I no heart to this people. Drive them away, that they may go out of my sight.

But unto the ungodly sayeth God, "Why dost thou preach my laws, and takest my covenant in thy mouth,

The LORD abhorreth the sacrifice of the ungodly; but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable to him.

The sacrifice of the ungodly is abomination, for they offer the thing that is gotten with wickedness.

He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, his prayer shall be abhorred.

Why offer ye so many sacrifices unto me, sayeth the LORD? I am full of the burnt offerings of weathers, and with the fatness of fed beasts. I have no pleasure in the blood of bullocks, lambs, and goats.

Thus sayeth the LORD: Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, that I sent unto her? Or who is the usurer, to whom I sold you? Behold, for your own offenses are ye sold: and because of your transgression, is your mother forsaken.

Seeing

Commonly, when a man putteth away his wife, and she goeth from him, and marrieth with another, then the question is: should he resort unto her any more after that? Is not this field then defiled and unclean? But as for thee, thou hast played the harlot with many lovers, yet turn again to me, sayeth the LORD.

Thou hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, thou hast laid out thy legs to every one that came by, and multiplied thine whoredom.

"Thou son of man, there were two women, that had one mother.

The holy

'If one bear holy flesh in his coat lap, and with his lap do touch the bread, pottage, wine, oil or any other meat: shall it be holy also?'" The priests answered and said, "No."

Unto the pure, are all things pure: but unto them that are defiled, and unbelieving, is nothing pure: but even the very minds and consciences of them are defiled.

Thou doest evil

Which rejoice in doing evil, and delight in wicked things:

A fool doth wickedly and maketh but a sport of it; nevertheless it is wisdom for a man to beware of such.

Like as one shooteth deadly arrows and darts out of a privy place, even so doth a dissembler with his neighbour.

rejoiceth not in iniquity: but rejoiceth in the truth,

But now ye rejoice in your boastings. All such rejoicing is evil.