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Has a nation changed its gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

Verse ConceptsNegotiationPolytheismExchanging Good For BadGod Bestowing GloryNo Help In Other Gods

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Verse ConceptsChastisementIndifferenceLionsResponseAfflictions Of The WickedAdmonition, RecievingSmitten CheeksKilling ProphetsUseless Labour

Yea, you shall go forth from him, with your hands upon your head: for the LORD has rejected your trusted ones, and you shall not prosper in them.

Verse ConceptsRejecting PeopleHands On HeadsTrusting Other PeopleNot Prospering

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

Verse ConceptsSpringBeing AshamedWeather, As God's JudgmentHarlotsShowersLack Of RainNatural Disasterswhores

The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.

Verse ConceptsLicentiousnessSpiritual HarlotryHarlotsWantonnessSacrificing On The High PlacesTimes Of PeopleWorship At Trees

And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned unto me with her whole heart, but in pretense, says the LORD.

Verse ConceptsNot Whole HeartedPretenceRepentance, Nature OfHalf HeartednessNot Returning To GodRelated Nations

And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

Verse ConceptsComparisonsPeople In RighteousnessBackslidingBacksliders

For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

Verse ConceptsRuinsArchaeologyThose Who DestroyEmpty Cities

For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and wail: for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned back from us.

Verse ConceptsClothLamentingHaircloth

Like keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she has been rebellious against me, says the LORD.

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of Israel

For thus has the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

Verse ConceptsGod DestroyingDestruction Of CountriesNot Destroyed

Fear you not me? says the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence, who has placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though its waves toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

Verse ConceptsBoundariesSandSeaAttitudes Of RespectOceansAweWavesDivine Power Over NatureBarriersEternal WorldLimits For The SeaSand And GravelFear God!

For thus has the LORD of hosts said, Hew you down trees, and cast a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be punished; she is full of oppression in the midst of her.

Verse ConceptsOppression, Nature OfSuffering, HardshipFelling Trees

We have heard the report of it: our hands grow feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

Verse ConceptsBad NewsLabour PainsNo Strength Left

Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says the LORD.

Verse ConceptsRespect, For God's CharacterStealingDensStatus Of The TempleA Place For God's Namethieves

But you shall say unto them, This is a nation that obeys not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receives correction: truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

Verse ConceptsAdmonition, RecievingSelf WillThose Against TruthAgainst The Truth

Cut off your hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsHairsLamentingMourningRejection Of God, Results OfSongsBarbersAnger Of God, ConsequencesCutting HairAccompaniments Of Mourning

Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

Verse ConceptsPoison

Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then has not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Verse ConceptsdiseasesBalmsHealingHerbs And SpicesMedicineOintmentNo HealingHealth And HealingHope And Healingwholeness

Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it, for why is the land perished and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passes through?

Verse ConceptsWisdom, Human NatureWhy Does This Happen?

He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens at his discretion.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Creation OfGod, Wisdom OfCreation Of The Physical HeavensPower, Of GodPower Of God, ShownGod's Creation

Behold, the noise of the report has come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of jackals.

Verse ConceptsCities Under AttackOut Of The North

What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.

Verse ConceptsAmbivalence

The LORD called your name, A green olive tree, fair, and with good fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, SpiritualStormsColors, GreenOaksBurning PlantsBeauty Of ThingsOlive TreesGod Controls Storms

For the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.

Verse ConceptsMetaphorical PlantingGod Will Bring Harm

Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they mourn for the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

Verse ConceptsSorrow

Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

Verse ConceptsHealingHope, In GodHope, Nature OfPeace, Human Search ForZion, As A SymbolSmitten CheeksFear Will ComeGod Hating PeopleNo HealingNo PeaceHope And Healing

She that has borne seven languishes: she has breathed her last; her sun has gone down while it was yet day: she has been ashamed and confounded: and the rest of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD.

Verse ConceptsHumiliationThe SunSeven ChildrenLife Cut ShortGod Will Cause Defeat

And it shall come to pass, when you shall show this people all these words, and they shall say unto you, Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

Verse ConceptsGod Harmed ThemWhat Sin?Why Does God Do This?

Therefore thus says the LORD; Ask you now among the nations, who has heard such things: the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

Verse ConceptsVirginUnique EventsPeople Appalledvirginity

And it came to pass the next day, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD has not called your name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.

Verse ConceptsPeople Renaming PeopleFear Will Cometerrorism

Sing unto the LORD, praise you the LORD: for he has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

Verse ConceptsPraiseRescuePraise The Lord With Music!

And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has the LORD done thus unto this great city?

Verse ConceptsWhy Does God Do This?

I spoke unto you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from your youth, that you obeyed not my voice.

Verse ConceptsHabitsListeningSecurityDisobedience, To GodBeing Evil From YouthRefusing To HearProtecting Your Family

My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.

Verse ConceptsBrokennessAlcoholdefeatWineIndividuals TremblingBroken Heartsheartbroken

Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the poisonous water: for from the prophets of Jerusalem has profaneness gone forth into all the land.

Verse ConceptsPoisonBitter FoodWicked ProphetsBitternessprophets

They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD has said, You shall have peace; and they say unto everyone that walks after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceFalse ProphetsSelf WillNo Peaceimagination

For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived and heard his word? who has marked his word, and heard it?

Verse ConceptsWord Of GodPaying Attention To God

Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

Verse ConceptsStormsWeather, As God's JudgmentWhirlwindsHurricanesGod Controls Storms

The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has executed, and till he has performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days you shall consider it perfectly.

Verse ConceptsGod, Purpose OfGuidance, God's Promises OfHeart, DivineUnderstandingAnger Of God, Nature OfDeterminationProper Understanding

The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD.

Verse ConceptsAbsolute TruthFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsStrawChaffMisleading DreamsUnrelated ThingsSpeaking As From God

Thus shall you say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, What has the LORD answered? and, What has the LORD spoken?

Verse ConceptsGod Answered

Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has the LORD answered you? and, What has the LORD spoken?

Verse ConceptsGod Answered

From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD has come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but you have not hearkened.

Verse ConceptsListeningWord Of God20 To 30 YearsThose Who Rose EarlySaying Repeatedly

And the LORD has sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

Verse ConceptsMinistry, Nature OfWatchfulness, DivineRefusing To HearThose Who Rose EarlyDoing RepeatedlyGod Sends Prophets

They said, Turn you again now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given unto you and to your fathers forever and ever:

Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofEternal PossessionTurning From EvilRefusing To HearGod Gave The Landimprovement

And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that are written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Methods Of OtBooks Of Prophecy

A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, says the LORD.

Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod KillsGod SuingThe End Of The World

A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a wailing of the leaders of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD has plundered their pasture.

He has forsaken his lair, like a lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

Verse ConceptsGod Like A LionLike Creatures

Then spoke the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.

Verse ConceptsDeath Penalty For Heresy

Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will relent concerning the evil that he has pronounced against you.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodGod, Repentance OfMind, Of GodReformationObedience To GodGod Changing His MindPeople Changing Their MindsGod's PlanMaking DecisionsGods PlanGod Turning Bad Things Into Good

But know you for certain, that if you put me to death, you shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon its inhabitants: for of a truth the LORD has sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

Verse ConceptsAffirmationsHonestyInnocence, Teaching OnGod Sending Prophets

Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.

Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD has spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

Verse ConceptsPestilenceGod KillingFamine KillingGod Kills

The prophet which prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD has truly sent him.

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Inspiration Of OtDiscerning God's ThingsNo Peace

Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.

Verse ConceptsPersuasionFalse ProphetsSatan, Agents OfTrust, Lack OfTrusting Deceptive ThingsGod Not SendingProphets Who Were Not Sent

Because you have said, The LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon;

Verse ConceptsGod Spoke By The Prophets

The LORD has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that you should be officers in the house of the LORD, over every man that is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in prison, and in the stocks.

Verse ConceptsMadmenDeposed PriestsExchange Of IndividualsReckoned Insane

Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because Shemaiah has prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:

Verse ConceptsTrusting Deceptive ThingsGod Not SendingProphets Who Were Not SentFalse Apostles, Prophets And Teachers

Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his descendants: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, says the LORD; because he has taught rebellion against the LORD.

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Against GodFalse Apostles, Prophets And Teachers

The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has done it, and until he has performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall consider it.

Verse ConceptsHeart, DivineUnderstandingAnger Of God, Nature OfRevelation Of The FutureProper UnderstandingGod Has Anger

For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerRansomRedemption, In OtLimitations Of Strengthredeemed

How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall protect a man.

Verse ConceptsNew ThingsApostasy in OTChrist, The Seed OfCompassesWeak WomenBefore People ActBackslidingBacksliderswomanwandering

Who has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and have made yourself a name, as at this day;

Verse ConceptsSigns And Wonders Before Christ

Behold the siege mounds, they have come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what you have spoken has come to pass; and, behold, you see it.

Verse ConceptsAttackingActual Attacks On JerusalemGod Will Cause Defeat

For this city has been to me as a provocation of my anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Jerusalem

Consider you not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, as if they should be no more a nation before them.

Verse ConceptsTwo Groups

At the end of seven years let you go every man his brother, a Hebrew, who has been sold unto you; and when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

Verse ConceptsListeningSabbatical YearYearsCancellation Of DeptSix YearsSeven YearsPeople Freeing Slavesfreeliberation

And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which has gone up from you.

Verse ConceptsGod Will Cause Defeat

Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he has charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldDrinking No WineObeying People

Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people has not hearkened unto me:

Verse ConceptsRefusing To HearObeying People

And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he has commanded you:

Verse ConceptsObeying People

It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return everyone from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Described AsGod Answers PrayerFree Moral AgencyAnger And Forgivenesssupplicationpetition

Take you again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.

Verse ConceptsDoing Repeatedly

Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall you say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which has come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.

Verse ConceptsEarthly Armies

But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:

Verse ConceptsSurrender

And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD your God has pronounced this evil upon this place.

Verse ConceptsGod Harmed Them

Now the LORD has brought it, and done according as he has said: because you have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come upon you.

Verse ConceptsChains

Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wherever it seems convenient unto you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him rations and a gift, and let him go.

And said unto him, Do you certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay you? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.

Verse ConceptsNot Believing PeopleAttempting To Kill Specific People

For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As my anger and my fury has been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when you shall enter into Egypt: and you shall be an oath, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.

Verse ConceptsCursing The UngodlyGod Will Be AngryMade A Horror

The LORD has said concerning you, O you remnant of Judah; Go you not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

And now I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for which he has sent me unto you.

Then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, You speak falsely: the LORD our God has not sent you to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:

Verse ConceptsFalse Accusations, Examples OfPride, Results OfPride, Results InProphesying Lies

Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened unto you, as it is this day.

Verse ConceptsBreaking God's Law

You did say, Woe is me now! for the LORD has added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

Verse ConceptsdiscouragementSighingRest, PhysicalSelf PitySleeplessnessTirednessUnhappinessI Am Suffering

The nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land: for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.

Verse ConceptsWarriorsDisorganizationPeople StumblingShame Has Come

They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has passed the time appointed.

Verse ConceptsNoiseRight Time For People

Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBaldnessHairsHeadsKnivesMourningSilenceGashing Bodies

How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD has given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the seashore? there has he appointed it.

Verse ConceptsNot Being StillNot StillGod's Orders

And the plunderer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CitiesThose Who DestroyNo Escape

Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his dregs, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.

Verse ConceptsWineTreatment From YouthThose At Easeteenager