Jeremiah 2:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

Thine

Hosea 5:5

And thy

Zechariah 7:11

Bitter

Jeremiah 4:18

Job 20:11

Amos 8:10

And that my

General references

Ezekiel 39:24

Bible References

Thine

Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, at the time he was leading thee in the way?

therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way, and be filled with their own devices.

His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves.

And now, let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot;

Thus saith Jehovah: 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, through your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

And Israel's pride doth testify to his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall fall by their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.

And thy

And Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done? She hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath committed fornication.

Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall waste them; the leopard lurketh against their cities, every one that goeth out thence is torn in pieces: for their transgressions are multiplied, their backslidings are increased.

Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back with a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

For Israel is refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide pasture.

Yea, my people are bent upon backsliding from me: though they call them to the Most High, none at all exalteth him.

O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

But they refused to hearken, and turned a rebellious shoulder, and made their ears heavy, that they should not hear.

Bitter

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, yea, it is bitter, yea, it reacheth unto thy heart.

His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

And that my

Will ye not fear me? saith Jehovah. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have set the sand a bound for the sea by a perpetual decree, and it shall not pass it? and its waves toss themselves, but they do not prevail; and they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, he cut it with the scribe's knife, and cast it into the fire that was in the pan until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the pan.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of the servant of Jehovah; of David.} The transgression of the wicked uttereth within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.

there is no fear of God before their eyes.

General references

And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments at mount Horeb.

therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way, and be filled with their own devices.

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden from you what is good.

And they shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I did unto them, and I hid my face from them.