Jeremiah 9:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

We are

Micah 2:4

Our

General references

Leviticus 18:28

Ezekiel 27:2

Bible References

We are

“Is Israel a slave? Or is he a homeborn servant?
Why has he become a prey?

“Behold, he goes up like clouds,
And his chariots like the whirlwind;
His horses are swifter than eagles.
Woe to us, for we are ruined!”

and you will

grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you.

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
Our houses to aliens.

“On that day they will take up against you a taunt
And

utter a bitter lamentation and say,

‘We are completely destroyed!
He exchanges the portion of my people;
How He removes it from me!
To the apostate He apportions our fields.’

Our

For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants.

‘You are therefore to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live will not spew you out.

“Depart! Unclean!” they cried of themselves.
“Depart, depart, do not touch!”
So they fled and wandered;
Men among the nations said,
“They shall not continue to dwell with us.”

“Arise and go,
For this is no place of rest
Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction,
A painful destruction.

General references

so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you.

“And you, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;