Jeremiah 6:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.

A fountain

Proverbs 4:23

Isaiah 57:20

James 3:10

Violence

Bible References

A fountain

Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs of life.

But the wicked are like the tossing sea,
For it cannot be quiet,
And its waters toss up refuse and mud.

from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way.

Violence

For each time I speak, I cry aloud;
I proclaim violence and destruction,
Because for me the word of the Lord has resulted
In reproach and derision all day long.

Confuse, O Lord, divide their tongues,

For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, none of their people, none of their wealth, nor anything eminent among them.

You shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “A city shedding blood in her midst, so that her time will come, and that makes idols, contrary to her interest, for defilement!

“For her blood is in her midst;
She placed it on the bare rock;
She did not pour it on the ground
To cover it with dust.

Woe to those who scheme iniquity,
Who work out evil on their beds!

When morning comes, they do it,

For it is in the power of their hands.

And I said,
“Hear now, heads of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel.
Is it not for you to know justice?

The godly person has perished from the land,
And there is no upright person among men.
All of them lie in wait for bloodshed;
Each of them hunts the other with a net.