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

Have you not brought this unto yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?

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

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

The look on their countenance does witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil unto themselves.

And now; 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 trampled down:

Thus says the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have you sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

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

And thy

The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she has 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, a leopard shall watch over their cities: everyone that goes out there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

For Israel slides back like a stubborn heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in an open pasture.

And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

O Israel, return unto the LORD your God; for you have fallen because of your iniquity.

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

Bitter

Your way and your doings have procured these things unto you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches unto your heart.

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which 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 every waist, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it like the mourning of an only son, and its end as a bitter day.

And that my

Fear you not me? says the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence, who has placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though its waves toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though 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 penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD.] The transgression of the wicked says within my heart, that 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 by the mount Horeb.

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

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 worshiped other gods, and served them.

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hidden my face from them.