Jeremiah 6:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

To whom

Jeremiah 5:4

Isaiah 28:9

Isaiah 53:1

Give

Hebrews 11:7

Their ear

Acts 7:51

The word

Delight

Bible References

To whom

Then I said, "These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.

"To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

Give

If I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,'and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.

and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people,

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Their ear

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD; remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds."

Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

But Moses said to the LORD, "Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?"

But to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.

And he said, "Go, and say to this people: "'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.'

Who among you will give ear to this, will attend and listen for the time to come?

"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

The word

For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, "Violence and destruction!" For the word of the LORD has become for me a reproach and derision all day long.

The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.

One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also."

The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.

Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,

Delight

but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart."

I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.

For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,