Matthewjacobson40
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Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 2:23-24 ESV
How can you say, 'I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals'? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done— a restless young camel running here and there, a wild donkey used to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.
Aug 10
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 2:22 ESV
Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord God.
Aug 10
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 2:20-21 ESV
"For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, 'I will not serve.' Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore. Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?
Aug 10
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 2:19 ESV
Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord God of hosts.
Aug 10
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 2:16 ESV
Moreover, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head.
Aug 10
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 2:14-15 ESV
"Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey? The lions have roared against him; they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.
Aug 10
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 2:13 ESV
for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Aug 10
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 2:11 ESV
Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Aug 10
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 2:8 ESV
The priests did not say, 'Where is the Lord?' Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.
Aug 10
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 2:7 ESV
And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.
Aug 10
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 2:6 ESV
They did not say, 'Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?'
Aug 10
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 2:5 ESV
Thus says the Lord: "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?
Aug 10
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 2:3 ESV
Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his harvest. All who ate of it incurred guilt; disaster came upon them, declares the Lord."
Aug 10
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 2:2 ESV
"Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, "I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
Aug 10
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 1:17-19 ESV
But you, dress yourself for work; arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them.And I, behold, I make you this day a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, declares the Lord, to deliver you."
Aug 10
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 1:14 ESV
Then the Lord said to me, "Out of the north disaster shall be let loose upon all the inhabitants of the land.
Aug 10
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 1:12 ESV
Then the Lord said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it."
Aug 5
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 1:9 ESV
Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
Aug 5
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 1:6-8 ESV
Then I said, "Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth."But the Lord said to me, "Do not say, 'I am only a youth'; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the Lord."
Aug 5
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 1:5 ESV
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Aug 5