Matthewjacobson40
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Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 4:5 ESV
Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, "Blow the trumpet through the land; cry aloud and say, 'Assemble, and let us go into the fortified cities!'
Aug 12
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 4:4 ESV
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord; remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds."
Aug 12
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 4:1-3 ESV
"If you return, O Israel, declares the Lord, to me you should return. If you remove your detestable things from my presence, and do not waver, and if you swear, 'As the Lord lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory." For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: "Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
Aug 12
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 3:25 ESV
Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God."
Aug 12
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 3:22 ESV
"Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to you, for you are the Lord our God.
Aug 12
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 3:20-21 ESV
Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband, so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel, declares the Lord.'" A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons because they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the Lord their God.
Aug 12
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 3:19 ESV
"'I said, How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
Aug 12
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 3:16-18 ESV
And when you have multiplied and been fruitful in the land, in those days, declares the Lord, they shall no more say, "The ark of the covenant of the Lord." It shall not come to mind or be remembered or missed; it shall not be made again.At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage.
Aug 12
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 3:15 ESV
"'And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Aug 12
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 3:13-14 ESV
Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the Lord your God and scattered your favors among foreigners under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, declares the Lord. Return, O faithless children, declares the Lord; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
Aug 12
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 3:10-12 ESV
Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord."And the Lord said to me, "Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, "'Return, faithless Israel, declares the Lord. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the Lord; I will not be angry forever.
Aug 12
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 3:8 ESV
She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.
Aug 11
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 3:7 ESV
And I thought, 'After she has done all this she will return to me,' but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
Aug 11
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 3:6 ESV
The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: "Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore?
Aug 11
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 3:3 ESV
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed.
Aug 11
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 3:2 ESV
Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom.
Aug 11
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 3:1 ESV
"If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the Lord.
Aug 11
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 2:35 ESV
you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, 'I have not sinned.'
Aug 11
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 2:30-31 ESV
In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion. And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, 'We are free, we will come no more to you'?
Aug 11
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 2:26-28 ESV
"As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel shall be shamed: they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, who say to a tree, 'You are my father,' and to a stone, 'You gave me birth.' For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, 'Arise and save us!' But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you, in your time of trouble; for as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah.
Aug 11