Jeremiah 6:8
Undergo teaching, O Jerusalem, or my soul will be turned away from you, and I will make you a waste, an unpeopled land.
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Deuteronomy 32:29If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!
Psalms 50:17Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.
Proverbs 4:13Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.
Jeremiah 2:15The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.
Jeremiah 7:3The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for the better and I will let you go on living in this place.
Jeremiah 7:34And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 6:2-9
Judgments Threatened against Israel; The Doom of Israel. ( b. c. 608.) 1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. 2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. 3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place. 4… Read the whole commentary →