Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me," declares the Lord GOD of Hosts. Cross References Job 20:12 Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue, Psalm 36:1 An oracle is in my heart regarding the transgression of the wicked man: There is no fear of God before his eyes. Proverbs 1:32 For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them. Isaiah 3:9 The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves. Jeremiah 3:6 Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there. Jeremiah 3:8 She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well. Jeremiah 4:18 "Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!" Jeremiah 5:22 Do you not fear Me?" declares the LORD. "Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it. Jeremiah 5:24 They have not said in their hearts, 'Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.' Ezekiel 39:24 I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid My face from them. Hosea 5:5 Israel's arrogance testifies against them; Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; even Judah stumbles with them. Hosea 7:2 But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face. Hosea 11:7 My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them. Hosea 13:9 You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me--against your helper. Amos 8:10 I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day. Micah 1:5 All this is for the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem? Treasury of Scripture Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, said the Lord GOD of hosts. thine Jeremiah 2:17 Proverbs 1:31 Proverbs 5:22 and thy Jeremiah 3:6-8,11-14 Jeremiah 5:6 Jeremiah 8:5 bitter Jeremiah 4:18 Job 20:11-16 Amos 8:10 and that my Jeremiah 5:22 Jeremiah 36:23,24 Psalm 36:1 |