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

Could this not have come upon you peradventure because thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

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

His own iniquities shall take hold of the wicked, and he shall be imprisoned with the cords of his sins.

The appearance of their countenance witnesses against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom; they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! For they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

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

Thus saith the LORD, 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, for your iniquities ye are sold, and for your rebellions was your mother put away,

And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity; Judah shall also fall with them.

And thy

The LORD said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which rebellious Israel has done? She is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.

Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the desert shall destroy them and a tiger shall lie in wait over their cities; anyone that goes out from there shall be torn in pieces because their rebellions have been multiplied, and their backslidings are increased.

Why then is this people of Jerusalem rebellious with a perpetual rebellion? They hold fast deceit; they refuse to return.

for Israel has turned away as a wild heifer; shall the LORD now feed them as rams in a large place?

Meanwhile, my people adhere to the rebellion against me though they call unto me upon High; absolutely none at all wish to exalt me.

O Israel, become converted unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

But they refused to hearken and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears that they should not hear.

Bitter

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

His bones are full of the sins of his youth, which shall be buried with him in the dust.

and I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; and I will cause sackcloth to be brought up upon all loins and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son and the end thereof as a bitter day.

And that my

Do ye not fear me? saith the LORD; will ye not tremble at my presence, who placed the sand for the bound of the sea by an eternal order, which cannot be broken? Storms shall raise themselves up, yet they shall not prevail; their waves shall roar, yet they shall not pass over it.

And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

The rebellion of the wicked saith to my heart that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

there is no fear of God before their eyes.

General references

Then the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from Mount Horeb on.

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

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you.

Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshipped other gods and served them.

According to their uncleanness and according to their rebellions have I done unto them and hid my face from them.