Jeremiah 50:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

Have devoured

We offend

The habitation

Jeremiah 31:23

Psalm 90:1

Psalm 91:1

The hope

Jeremiah 14:8

Psalm 22:4

1 Timothy 1:1

General references

Jeremiah 22:9

Jeremiah 30:16

Bible References

Have devoured

Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.

I have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.

Aram on the east, and the Philistines on the west, who have come against Israel with open mouths. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat, even all you beasts of the wood.

We offend

Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.

And the captain of the armed men took Jeremiah and said to him, The Lord your God gave word of the evil which was to come on this place:

I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;

We have not given ear to your servants the prophets, who said words in your name to our kings and our rulers and our fathers and all the people of the land.

And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.

Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.

The habitation

So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Again will these words be used in the land of Judah and in its towns, when I have let their fate be changed: May the blessing of the Lord be on you, O resting-place of righteousness, O holy mountain.

Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations.

Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

The hope

O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?

Our fathers had faith in you: they had faith and you were their saviour.

Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the order of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope;

General references

And they will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord their God, and became worshippers and servants of other gods.

For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your goods by force will undergo the same themselves.