Jeremiah 11:16

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Summary

The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

A green

Psalm 52:8

Romans 11:17

With

John 15:6

Bible References

A green

But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

With

It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

See, it is put into the fire for burning: the fire has made a meal of its two ends and the middle part of it is burned; is it good for any work?

And say to the woodland of the South, Give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said: See, I will have a fire lighted in you, for the destruction of every green tree in you and every dry tree: the flaming flame will not be put out, and all faces from the south to the north will be burned by it.

And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.

If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.