Jeremiah 2:27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

To a stock

Habakkuk 2:18

For they

Ezekiel 8:16

Ezekiel 23:35

But in the time

Hosea 7:14

General references

Isaiah 45:16

Bible References

To a stock

But they are together brutish and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them vanity. And the things that they delight in shall not profit. And their own witnesses see not, nor know, that they may be put to shame.

Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, they hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down, yea, they worship.

What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols?

For they

And he brought me into the inner court of LORD's house. And, behold, at the door of the temple of LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of LORD, and their faces toward

Therefore thus says lord LORD: Because thou have forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore thou also bear thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

But in the time

a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs up the wind in her desire. In her time of estrus who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month they shall find her.

O inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes thy nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied thou shall be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

And they vexed and oppressed the sons of Israel that year. Eighteen years [they oppressed] all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

When he killed them, then they inquired after him, and they returned and sought God earnestly.

LORD, in trouble they have visited thee, they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening was upon them.

I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.

And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They rebel against me.

General references

They shall be put to shame, yea, confounded, all of them. They shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols.