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

Is not this what thou wast certain to do for thyself, - in that thou didst forsake Yahweh thy God, when he was leading thee by the way?

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and, with their own counsels, be filled.

His own iniquities, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized.

The show of their face, hath answered against them, And their sin - like Sodom, have they told, they have not concealed it. Alas for their souls! For they have requited to themselves, calamity.

Now, therefore, I pray you, let me tell, you, what I am about to do to my vineyard, - To take away the fence thereof And it shall be eaten up, To destroy the wall thereof And it shall be trodden down;

Thus, saith Yahweh - Where then is the set, oil of your mothers divorce, whom I have put away? Or, which of my creditors, is it to whom I have sold you? Lo! for your iniquities, have ye been sold, And for your transgressions, hath your mother been put away.

Therefore will the Excellency of Israel, answer, to his face, - and, Israel and Ephraim, shall stumble in their iniquity, even Judah with them, hath stumbled.

And thy

And Yahweh said unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what apostate Israel, did? She used to go upon every high mountain and beneath every green tree, and commit unchastity there.

For this cause, hath the lion out of the forest smitten them, The wolf of the waste plains, preyeth upon them, The leopard, is keeping watch over their cities, Every one that goeth out from thence, is torn in pieces, - For they have multiplied their transgressions, Numerous are their apostasies.

Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem apostatized with an enduring apostacy, - Taken fast hold of deceit, Refused to come back?

For, as a heifer that is stubborn, hath Israel, been stubborn, - Now, can Yahweh, turn them out to pasture, like a young ram in a wide place?

But, my people, are bent towards turning from me, though upwards they call them, none of them can lift them.

Return thou, O Israel, unto Yahweh thy God, - for thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.

Howbeit they refused to give heed, but put forth a rebellious shoulder, - and, their ears, made they hard of hearing, that they might not hear;

Bitter

Thine own way And thine own doings, Have done these things unto thee, - This thy wickedness, Surely it is bitter, Surely it hath reached unto thy heart.

His bones, are full of youthful vigour, yet, with him - in the dust, shall it lie down.

So will I turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into a dirge, and I will bring up - on all loins - sackcloth, and upon every head - baldness, - and I will make it like the mourning for an only one, even the afterpart thereof, as a day of bitterness.

And that my

Even for me, will ye have no reverence? Enquireth Yahweh, And because of me, will ye not he pained? In that though I placed the sand as a bound to the sea, A decree age-abiding, and it should not pass beyond it, - When they would toss themselves Then should they not prevail, When the waves thereof would roar Then should they not pass beyond it,

So then it came to pass when Jehudi had read three or four columns that he cut it up into fragments with a scribes knife, and cast them into the fire that was in the stove, - until, all the roll, was consumed on the fire that was on the stove.

Declareth the transgression of the lawless one, within my heart, There is, no dread of God, before his eyes;

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

General references

So then the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, and moved on from Mount Horeb.

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and, with their own counsels, be filled.

Your iniquities, have thrust away these things, Yea, your sins, have withholden that which is good from you.

And they shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, their God, - And bowed down to other gods And served them.

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions, dealt I with them, - And so I hid my face from them.