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Summary

How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

Created

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Bible References

How

Jeremiah 2:18
“But now what are you doing on the road to Egypt,
To drink the waters of the Nile?
Or what are you doing on the road to Assyria,
To drink the waters of the Euphrates?
Jeremiah 4:14
Wash your heart from evil, O Jerusalem,
That you may be saved.
How long will your wicked thoughts
Lodge within you?
Jeremiah 13:27
“As for your adulteries and your lustful neighings,
The lewdness of your prostitution
On the hills in the field,
I have seen your abominations.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
How long will you remain unclean?”
Hosea 8:5
He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying,
“My anger burns against them!”
How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Backsliding

Jeremiah 3:6
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.
Jeremiah 7:24
Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.
Jeremiah 8:4
“You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord,
“Do men fall and not get up again?
Does one turn away and not repent?
Jeremiah 14:7
“Although our iniquities testify against us,
O Lord, act for Your name’s sake!
Truly our apostasies have been many,
We have sinned against You.
Jeremiah 49:4
“How boastful you are about the valleys!
Your valley is flowing away,
O backsliding daughter
Who trusts in her treasures, saying,
Who will come against me?’
Hosea 4:16
Since Israel is stubborn
Like a stubborn heifer,
Can the Lord now pasture them
Like a lamb in a large field?
Hosea 11:7
So My people are bent on turning from Me.
Though they call them to the One on high,
None at all exalts Him.
Hosea 14:4
I will heal their apostasy,
I will love them freely,
For My anger has turned away from them.
Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears from hearing.

Created

Numbers 16:30
But if the Lord brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they descend alive into Sheol, then you will understand that these men have spurned the Lord.”

A woman

Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.
Matthew 1:21
She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”
Luke 1:34
Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?”
Galatians 4:4
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

General references

Luke 1:27
to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the descendants of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.