THEOSISJeremiah 17:3Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Sacrificing in the field: I will give thy strength, and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin in all thy borders.
הֲרָרִי֙ בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה חֵילְךָ֥ כָל־אוֹצְרוֹתֶ֖יךָ לָבַ֣ז אֶתֵּ֑ן בָּמֹתֶ֕יךָ בְּחַטָּ֖את בְּכָל־גְּבוּלֶֽיךָ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Jer 15:13Thy riches and thy treasures I will give unto spoil for nothing, because of all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
- Jer 26:18Micheas of Morasthi was a prophet in the days of Ezechias king of Juda, and he spoke to all the people of Juda, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Sion shall be ploughed like a field, and Jerusalem shall be a heap of stones: and the mountain of the house the high places of woods.
- Isa 39:4And he said: What saw they in thy house? And Ezechias said: All things that are in my house have they seen, there was not any thing which I have not shewn them in my treasures.
- Isa 39:6Behold the days shall come that all that is in thy house, and that thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried away into Babylon: there shall not any thing be left, saith the Lord.
- Ezek 7:20And they have turned the ornament of their jewels into pride, and have made of it the images of their abominations, and idols: therefore I have made it an uncleanness to them.
- Ezek 7:22And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall violate my secret place: and robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
- Lam 5:17Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.
- Lam 5:18For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.