Matthewjacobson40

you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, 'I have not sinned.'

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 2:30-31 ESV

In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 2:26-28 ESV

"As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel shall be shamed: they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets,

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 2:23-24 ESV

How can you say, 'I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals'? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done— a restless young camel running here and there,

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 2:22 ESV

Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord God.

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 2:20-21 ESV

"For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, 'I will not serve.' Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore.

almost 9 years ago

Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord God of hosts.

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 2:16 ESV

Moreover, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head.

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 2:14-15 ESV

"Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey?

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 2:13 ESV

for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 2:11 ESV

Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 2:8 ESV

The priests did not say, 'Where is the Lord?' Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 2:7 ESV

And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 2:6 ESV

They did not say, 'Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?'

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 2:5 ESV

Thus says the Lord: "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 2:3 ESV

Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his harvest. All who ate of it incurred guilt; disaster came upon them, declares the Lord."

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 2:2 ESV

"Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, "I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 1:17-19 ESV

But you, dress yourself for work; arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them.

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 1:14 ESV

Then the Lord said to me, "Out of the north disaster shall be let loose upon all the inhabitants of the land.

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

highlighted Jeremiah 1:12 ESV

Then the Lord said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it."

almost 9 years ago

Matthewjacobson40

Matthewjacobson40's Activity