Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

How shall

I had fed

Bible References

How shall

Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

No gods

1 Corinthians 8:4
Well then, with regard to food that has been offered to idols, I am quite aware that 'there is no such thing as an idol in the world' and that 'there is only the one God.'
Galatians 4:8
In those days, when you were ignorant of God, you were in servitude to gods who are really no gods at all;

I had fed

James 5:1
Come now, you rich men, weep and shriek over your impending miseries!

They then

1 Corinthians 6:9
What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites
Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.
James 4:4
(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.