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 like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

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

Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.

What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?

For they

And he took me into the inner square of the Lord's house, and at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the covered way and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs turned to the Temple of the Lord and their faces turned to the east; and they were worshipping the sun, turning to the east.

So this is what the Lord has said: Because you have not kept me in your memory, and because your back has been turned to me, you will even undergo the punishment of your evil designs and your loose ways.

But in the time

An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.

O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!

And that year the children of Israel were crushed under their yoke; for eighteen years all the children of Israel on the other side of Jordan, in the land of the Amorites which is in Gilead, were cruelly crushed down.

When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;

Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.

I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.

And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.

General references

All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low.