Jeremiah 9:2

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Summary

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

That i had

Psalm 55:6

Psalm 120:5

Micah 7:1

For

An assembly

General references

Bible References

That i had

I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.

For

"How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;

In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

An assembly

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.

Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

General references

Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you."

Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness." Selah.

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.