Jeremiah 2:19

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Jeremiah 2:19

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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 done this to yourself
By your forsaking the Lord your God
When He led you in the way?

“So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way
And be satiated with their own devices.

His own iniquities will capture the wicked,
And he will be held with the cords of his sin.

The expression of their faces bears witness against them,

And they display their sin like Sodom;
They do not even conceal it.
Woe to them!
For they have brought evil on themselves.

“So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed;
I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground.

Thus says the Lord,
“Where is the certificate of divorce
By which I have sent your mother away?
Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you?
Behold, you were sold for your iniquities,
And for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Moreover, the pride of Israel testifies against him,
And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;

Judah also has stumbled with them.

And thy

Then the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there.

Therefore a lion from the forest will slay them,
A wolf of the deserts will destroy them,
A leopard is watching their cities.
Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces,
Because their transgressions are many,
Their apostasies are numerous.

“Why then has this people, Jerusalem,

Turned away in continual apostasy?

They hold fast to deceit,
They refuse to return.

Since Israel is stubborn
Like a stubborn heifer,

Can the Lord now pasture them

Like a lamb in a large field?

So My people are bent on turning from Me.
Though they call them to the One on high,
None at all exalts Him.

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,

For you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

But they refused to pay attention and

turned a stubborn shoulder and

stopped their ears from hearing.

Bitter

“Your ways and your deeds
Have brought these things to you.
This is your evil. How bitter!
How it has touched your heart!”

“His bones are full of his youthful vigor,
But it lies down with him in the dust.

“Then I will turn your festivals into mourning
And all your songs into lamentation;
And I will bring sackcloth on everyone’s loins
And baldness on every head.
And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,
And the end of it will be like a bitter day.

And that my

‘Do you not fear Me?’ declares the Lord.
‘Do you not tremble in My presence?
For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,
An eternal decree, so it cannot cross over it.
Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail;
Though they roar, yet they cannot cross over it.

When Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s knife and threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord.
Transgression speaks to the ungodly within his heart;
There is no fear of God before his eyes.

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

General references

So the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.

“So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way
And be satiated with their own devices.

‘Your iniquities have turned these away,
And your sins have withheld good from you.

Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.’”

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I dealt with them, and I hid My face from them.”’”