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As for their gods, it may well be said of them, "They are gods, that made neither heaven nor earth: therefore shall they perish from the earth, and from all things under heaven."

Verse ConceptsGod, The CreatorLanguages

But as for our God, he made the earth with his power, and with his wisdom hath he finished the whole compass of the world; with his discretion hath he spread out the heavens.

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

when he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.

Verse ConceptsEarth, God SustainingNatureRainStoringThunderWeather, God's Sovereignty OverWindElements, Control OfVapourDivine Power Over NatureGod Sending RainGod Dispensing WindGod's VoiceGod's StorehousesProvidence, Of God In NatureGod Controlling The Rain

Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfIdolatry, Objections ToHaving No BreathFoolishness Of MenShame Of IdolatryDisappointmentHinduism

The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.

Verse ConceptsCreation, Origin OfGod, Power OfJacob, The PatriarchPeople Of God, In OtUniverseNot Like IdolsGod As A Warrior

For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.

Verse ConceptsSlingsGod Troubling

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

Verse ConceptsInjurySorrowWoeWoundsEnduringNo HealingMental IllnessSickness

The sound of a report, it's coming now! There is a great commotion from a land in the north to make the towns of Judah desolate, a refuge for jackals."

Verse ConceptsCities Under AttackOut Of The North

Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

Verse ConceptsFamilies, Nature OfCalling upon GodDestruction Of CountriesNot Knowing GodGod Angry With The NationsNot PrayingNot Seeking God

This is another Sermon, which the LORD commanded Jeremiah for to preach, saying,

Verse ConceptsSpeaking The Word God Gives

That I commanded your fathers, In the day of My bringing them out from the land of Egypt, Out of the iron furnace, saying, Hearken to My voice, and ye have done them, According to all that I command you, And ye have been to Me for a people, And I am to you for God,

Verse ConceptsFurnacesFreedom, Acts Of In OtIronI Will Be Their GodPay Attention To God!God Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

Verse ConceptsWatchfulness, DivineThose Who Rose EarlyPay Attention To God!God Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeHearingReceptivenessNo EscapeGod Will Bring Harm

Then the towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go crying for help to the gods to whom they have been burning perfumes: but they will give them no salvation in the time of their trouble.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorFalse ReligionemptinessIncense Offered AmissIdolatryThings Which Cannot SaveServing One's Own GodsNo Help In Other Gods

For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.

Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, HistoryAltars, PaganIncense Offered AmissMany Spiritual Beings

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.

Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodPrayer, For OthersNot PrayingPraying For OthersGetting Through Hard TimesPrayingListening To Godpeoplepetition

{What rights has my beloved in my house} [when] she has done many wicked things? Can the flesh of holiness pass over you? For {you engage in your wickedness}, then you exult.

Verse ConceptsAmbivalence

The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath 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, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, 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

for I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter.
I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me:
“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit;
let’s cut him off from the land of the living
so that his name will no longer be remembered.”

Verse ConceptsLambsBeing Killed Like An AnimalForgetting PeopleNames Blotted OutAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleKilled Like An Animal

For this, thus said Jehovah, concerning the men of Anathoth seeking my soul, saying, Thou shalt not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, and thou shalt not die by our hand.

Verse ConceptsKilling ProphetsProphecy MuzzledAttempting To Kill Specific People

For this, thus said Jehovah of armies, Behold me reviewing over them: their young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:

Verse ConceptsYouthFamine KillingKilling Sons And Daughters

And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

Verse ConceptsYearsNo SurvivorsGod Will Bring Harm

Lord, you have always been fair whenever I have complained to you. However, I would like to speak with you about the disposition of justice. Why are wicked people successful? Why do all dishonest people have such easy lives?

Verse ConceptsFaithlessness, As DisobedienceGod, Righteousness OfQuestionsApparent InjusticePartialityDoubting God's JusticeProsperity Of The WickedThe Wicked ProsperprosperingQuestioning Life

Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

Verse ConceptsLipsNominal ReligionRootsMetaphorical PlantingLack Of Meaning

But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Verse ConceptsSheepHeart, Known To GodBeing Killed Like An AnimalGod Testing PeopleKilled Like An Animal

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

Verse ConceptsdrynessGrassPunishment, Nature OfShepherds, As OccupationsBeastsGod Not SeeingBefore God ActsHerbs

For -- with footmen thou hast run, And they weary thee, And how dost thou fret thyself with horses! Even in the land of peace, In which thou art confident -- And how dost thou in the rising of Jordan!

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceRunningPeople StumblingThe Region Of JordanTired In ActivityRace

As for me, say I, I have forsaken mine own dwelling place, and left mine heritage. My life also that I love so well, have I given into the hands of mine enemies.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentGod Will Cause Defeat

My heritage has become like a lion in the woodland to me; her voice has been loud against me; so I have hate for her.

Verse ConceptsForestsHatredLionsGod Hating People

A speckled fowl is Mine inheritance to Me? Is the fowl round about against her? Come, assemble, every beast of the field, Come ye for food.

Verse ConceptsBirds, Figurative UseBirds, Types Of BirdsAnimals Eating PeopleBirds Of PreyBlemished CreaturesBirds

The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As Kings And LeadersVineyardInadequate ShepherdingDestroying VineyardsNames And Titles For The ChurchDisorganization

they have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourneth unto me: the whole land is made desolate, for no man layeth it to heart.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Countries

The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.

Verse ConceptsSafetyThose Who DestroyNo Peace

"I, the Lord, also have something to say concerning the wicked nations who surround my land and have attacked and plundered the land that I gave to my people as a permanent possession. I say: 'I will uproot the people of those nations from their lands and I will free the people of Judah who have been taken there.

Verse ConceptsPlucking Out

However, if they will not obey, then I will uproot and destroy that nation.”

This is the Lord’s declaration.

Verse ConceptsListeningDisobedience, To GodPlucking OutRefusing To Hear

Thus said Jehovah unto me, 'Go, and thou hast got for thee a girdle of linen, and hast placed it on thy loins, and into water thou dost not cause it to enter:'

Verse ConceptsLinenWaistsLinen Items

So, as the Lord said, I got a band for a price and put it round my body.

Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock.

Verse ConceptsGapsHidden Things

Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.

This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

Verse ConceptsFutilityFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristHardness Of HeartImpenitence, Warnings AgainstStubbornness, Consequences OfBowing To False GodsRefusing To HearUseless PeopleDifferent Gods

For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.

Verse ConceptsListeningWaistsPraise, Reasons ForClinging To GodThings Stuck TogetherRefusing To HearElect

And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings that sit for David upon his throne, and the priests and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

Verse ConceptsWicked ProphetsGod Making DrunkThe Dynasty Of Daviddrunkards

I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toGod Beating PeopleGod Without Mercy

Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfProcrastinationStumblingThe Insecurity Of The WickedPeople Stumbling

But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.

Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelFeelings Of Rejection By GodSecrecySorrowWeepingRefusing To HearActing In SecretThe Proud Will Be Abased

Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

Verse ConceptsQueensThroneNo KingBeing HumbleSurrenderHumble Yourselfhumblenesscrownsmistressprincipalities

What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?

Verse ConceptsAliancesLabour PainsPeople Teaching

And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryWhy Does This Happen?Changing Yourselfgreatness

Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.

Verse ConceptsLeopardAfrican AmericansGood WorksHabitsSalvation, Necessity And Basis OfSkinAnimals, Figurative UsePeople TransformedHuman SkinNothing GoodBlack And WhiteChangeSportsColorChanging Yourself

This is your lot,
what I have decreed for you—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
because you have forgotten Me
and trusted in Falsehood.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsdistrustTrusting Deceptive Thingsfate


“I have seen your vile and detestable acts,
Even your adulteries and your lustful neighings [after idols],
And the lewdness of your prostitution
On the hills in the fields.
Woe (judgment is coming) to you, O Jerusalem!
How long will you remain unclean [by ignoring My precepts]?”

Verse ConceptsLewdnessSpiritual HarlotryHillsPeople Being UncleanBefore People ActNeighing And BrayingWoe To Israel And Jerusalem

"Judah mourns, and her gates languish. The people mourn for the land, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.

Verse ConceptsSorrow

And their nobles send their little ones for water: they come to the pits, they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed, they are confounded, and have covered their heads.

Verse ConceptsCisternsNoblesDry PlacesSeeking WaterShaming People

Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

Verse ConceptsVeilsShaming People

For the hind also calveth in the field, and forsaketh its young, because there is no grass.

Verse ConceptsDeersGrassYoung AnimalAnimals ForsakingDeer Etc.Deer

And the wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Characteristics OfHaving No BreathWild Donkeys

O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

Verse ConceptsWitness Against OneselfWe Have SinnedBackslidingtestifying

O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

Verse ConceptsGod, Titles And Names OfHope, As ConfidenceHope, Results OfTravellersCitizenshipReckoned As Foreigners

Why wilt thou make thyself a coward, and as it were a giant that yet may not help? For thou art ours, O LORD, and we bear thy name; therefore forsake us not."

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentGod, The LordPower, God's SavingFeelings Of Rejection By GodAstonishmentPeople's Inability To SaveDo Not Forsake Us!Unable To SaveCalled By God's Namesurprises

Thus says the Lord to this people [Judah], “In the manner and to the degree [already pointed out] they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet. Therefore the Lord does not accept them; He will now remember [in detail] their wickedness and punish them for their sins.”

Verse ConceptsIniquity, God's Attitude TowardRestlessnessRestraintSelf ControlWhy Prayer Is UnansweredUnanswered PrayerWanderersGod Remembering SinLoving Evil

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer up burnt-offering and oblation, I will not accept them: for I will consume them by sword, and by famine, and by pestilence.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Of HypocritesdiseasesPlaguesPestilencePointless Fasting

And I said, Alas, Lord Jehovah! Behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; for I will give you assured peace in this place.

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceNo More FamineNo Peace

Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD: As for those prophets that preach in my name, whom I nevertheless have not sent, and that say, 'Tush, there shall neither battle, nor hunger be in this land': With sword and with hunger shall those prophets perish,

Verse ConceptsFamine, Characteristics OfFamine KillingNo More FamineFalse Apostles, Prophets And Teachers

And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

Verse ConceptsFruits Of SinNo Burials

Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersAffliction Day And NightNightI Mourn Catastrophe

If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, they that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.

Verse ConceptsThe CountrysideCities Under AttackUnknown ThingsWicked ProphetsFamine ComingFamine Will Come

Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou 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

Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

Verse ConceptsFaith, Origins Ofdrought, physicalHope, In GodRainSkyWaiting On GodGod Sending RainGod Controlling The Rain

Then the Lord said to me, “Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me [interceding for them], My heart would still not be [turned with favor] toward this people [Judah]. Send them away from My presence and out of My sight and let them go!

Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodRejection Of God, Results OfReprobates

And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.

Verse ConceptsNearness Of DeathFamine ComingDeath Looms NearWhere To?Famine Will Come

And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

Verse ConceptsdogsWild Animals DevouringBirds EatingFour Other ThingsPets

And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsMade A Horror

For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfPeople Without MercyFathers Loving Carepotential

I'll winnow them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land. I'll make them childless. I'll destroy my people, for they didn't change their ways.

Verse ConceptsToolsWinnowingBereavementGod Will Kill His People

I will make their widows more in number than the sands of the sea. Upon the mothers of their children, I shall bring a destroyer in the noonday. Suddenly and unawares, shall I send a fear upon their cities.

Verse ConceptsNoonSandWidowsThe Insecurity Of The WickedSudden DestructionThose Who DestroyMany In Israel

She that hath born seven children, shall have none; her heart shall be full of sorrow. The Sun shall fail her in the clear day, when she shall be confounded and faint for very heaviness. As for those that remain, I will deliver them unto the sword of their enemies, sayeth the LORD."

Verse ConceptsHumiliationThe SunSeven ChildrenLife Cut ShortGod Will Cause Defeat

Woe to me, my mother, For thou hast borne me a man of strife, And a man of contention to all the land, I have not lent on usury, Nor have they lent on usury to me -- All of them are reviling me.

Verse ConceptsdoubtersHealthInterestLonelinessSadnessSelf PitySuicideCynicismNever Being BornRegretting BirthBorrowingLending And BorrowingUngodly CursingFighting One AnotherConflictlent

Jehovah said, Verily I will strengthen thee for good; verily I will cause the enemy to make supplication unto thee in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

Verse ConceptsProtection From EnemiesGetting Through Hard Times

Is it possible for iron to be broken; even iron from the north, and brass?

Verse ConceptsBronzeIronOut Of The NorthSteel

Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

Verse ConceptsTreasureFree Of Chargeborders

And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.

Verse ConceptsFire Of JudgementUnknown Things

O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

Verse ConceptsMemoriesGod, Patience OfInjuryRevenge, Examples OfUnderstandingPersecution, Nature OfDivine RemembrancePeople VisitingBeing ReprovedRevenge

I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodEvil AssociationsIsolated PersonsAngry Peoplemockerslonliness

For this cause the Lord has said, If you will come back, then I will again let you take your place before me; and if you give out what is of value and not that which has no value, you will be as my mouth: let them come back to you, but do not go back to them.

Verse ConceptsReinstatementRevival, PersonalReturning To GodTurning RoundGood WordsRestoring SinnersSpeaking As From God

And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

Verse ConceptsBronzeFigurative WallsThings Like BronzeGod With Specific PeopleGod Saves The NeedyGod Delivering From Evil

"You shall not take for yourself a wife, there shall not be for you sons and daughters in this place."

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Purpose OfSinglenessNot MarryingMarriage Kjv

For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

Verse ConceptsMothers And SonsMotherhoodFathers And Daughters

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