Jeremiah 2:31

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

See ye

Amos 1:1

Micah 6:9

Have i been

We are lords

General references

Genesis 4:6

Isaiah 5:4

Bible References

See ye

The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

The LORD'S voice cries unto the city, and wisdom shall see your name: Hear the rod, and who has appointed it.

Have i been

Thus says the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

And Nathan said to David, You are the man. Thus says the LORD God of Israel, I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul;

And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have plenty left: for the LORD has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great abundance.

Yea, forty years did you sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes grew not old, and their feet swelled not.

And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

You are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.

We are lords

Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and dwelt in them;

For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, that flows with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: you are grown fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in any of his thoughts.

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.

Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would that you were cold or hot.

General references

And the LORD said unto Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your countenance fallen?

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? why, when I expected that it should bring forth grapes, it brought forth wild grapes?