Jeremiah 9:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

We are

Micah 2:4

Our

General references

Leviticus 18:28

Ezekiel 27:2

Bible References

We are

Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?

See, he will come up like the clouds, and his war-carriages like the storm-wind: his horses are quicker than eagles. Sorrow is ours, for destruction has come on us.

You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour.

Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.

In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.

Our

And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it.

So then, keep my rules and my decisions and do them, so that the land which I am giving you as your resting-place may not violently send you out again.

Away! unclean! they were crying out to them, Away! away! let there be no touching: when they went away in flight and wandering, men said among the nations, There is no further resting-place for them.

Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.

General references

So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.

And you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre;