Jeremiah 3:24
Confusion has devoured the labor of our fathers, from our youth, with their flocks and their herds, with their sons and their daughters.
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Jeremiah 9:18‘Let them hasten to take up a lamentation over us. Let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run with water.’
Ezekiel 16:19And my bread, which I gave to you, the fine flour, and the oil, and the honey, by which I nourished you, you placed in their sight as a sweet fragrance. And so it was done, says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:61And you shall remember your ways and be confounded, when you will have received your sisters, your elder with your younger. And I will give them to you as daughters, but not by your covenant.
Hosea 2:8And she did not know that I gave her grain and wine and oil, and that I increased her silver and gold, which they made into Baal.
Hosea 10:6If, indeed, it also has been offered to Assur, as a gift for the Avenging king, confusion will seize Ephraim, and Israel will be confounded by his own will.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 3:21-25
Israel Returning to God; Israel Encouraged in Their Return. ( b. c. 620.) 20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord . 21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the Lord their God. 22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God. 23… Read the whole commentary →