Jeremiah 6:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.

A fountain

Proverbs 4:23

Isaiah 57:20

James 3:10

Violence

Bible References

A fountain

And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.

But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste.

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so.

Violence

For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.

Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.

Violent behaviour has been lifted up into a rod of evil; it will not be slow in coming, it will not keep back.

And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean!

For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;

A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?

The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.