Jeremiah 3:9
Yea though it had come to pass that through the levity of her unchastity, she had defiled the land,—and committed adultery with Stone and with Tree,
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Isaiah 57:6Among the smooth stones of the torrent—valley, is thy portion. They, they, are thy lot; Even to them, hast thou Poured out a drink-offering. Caused to ascend a gift. Over these things, can I cease to grieve?
Jeremiah 2:27Saying, to a tree, My father, art thou! And to a stone, Thou, didst give us birth, For they have turned unto me the back and not the face,—But in the time of their calamity, they will say, Arise, and save us!
Jeremiah 10:8But at once, do they become brutish and stupid,—An example of utmost vanity, is, a tree!
Ezekiel 23:10They disclosed her shame, Her sons and her daughters:, took they away, And herself—with the sword, they slew,— Thus became she a by-word among women, when judgments, they had executed upon her.
Joel 1:19Unto thee, O Yahweh, will I cry,—for, a fire, hath consumed the pastures of the wilderness, and, a flame, hath set ablaze all the trees of the field.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 3:7-12
Idolatries of Israel; The Treachery of Judah. ( b. c. 620.) 6 The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. 7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and… Read the whole commentary →