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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
Now what will you gain
by traveling along the way to Egypt
to drink the waters of the Nile?
What will you gain
by traveling along the way to Assyria
to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
Jeremiah 4:14
Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem,
so that you will be delivered.
How long will you harbor
malicious thoughts within you?
Jeremiah 13:27
Your adulteries and your lustful neighing,
your heinous prostitution
on the hills, in the fields—
I have seen your detestable acts.
Woe to you, Jerusalem!
You are unclean—
for how long yet?
Hosea 8:5
Your calf-idol is rejected, Samaria.
My anger burns against them.
How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Backsliding

Jeremiah 3:6
In the days of King Josiah the Lord asked me, “Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
Jeremiah 7:24
Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention but followed their own advice and according to their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.
Jeremiah 8:4
“You are to say to them: This is what the Lord says:

Do people fall and not get up again?
If they turn away, do they not return?
Jeremiah 14:7
Though our guilt testifies against us,
Yahweh, act for Your name’s sake.
Indeed, our rebellions are many;
we have sinned against You.
Jeremiah 49:4
Why do you brag about your valleys,
your flowing valley,
you faithless daughter?
You who trust in your treasures
and boast, “Who can attack me?”
Hosea 4:16
For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn cow.
Can the Lord now shepherd them
like a lamb in an open meadow?
Hosea 11:7
My people are bent on turning from Me.
Though they call to Him on high,
He will not exalt them at all.
Hosea 14:4
I will heal their apostasy;
I will freely love them,
for My anger will have turned from him.
Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they closed their ears so they could not hear.

Created

Numbers 16:30
But if the Lord brings about something unprecedented, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them along with all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord.”

A woman

Isaiah 7:14
Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive, have a son, and name him Immanuel.
Matthew 1:21
She will give birth to a son, and you are to name Him Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
Luke 1:34
Mary asked the angel, “How can this be, since I have not been intimate with a man?”
Galatians 4:4
When the time came to completion, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

General references

Luke 1:27
to a virgin engaged to a man named Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.

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