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Jer. 2:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thine ownk wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.

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Isa. 5:5• ⁵And now, let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot; (Isa. 5:5)

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Jer. 2:17• ¹⁷Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, at the time he was leading thee in the way? (Jer. 2:17)

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Prov. 1:31• ³¹therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way, and be filled with their own devices. (Prov. 1:31)

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Prov. 5:22• ²²His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. (Prov. 5:22)

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Isa. 3:9• ⁹The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves. (Isa. 3:9)

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Isa. 5:5• ⁵And now, let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot; (Isa. 5:5)

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Isa. 50:1• ¹Thus saith Jehovah: Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, through your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. (Isa. 50:1)

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Hos. 5:5• ⁵And Israel's pride doth testify to his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall fall by their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them. (Hos. 5:5)

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Jer. 3:6‑8,11‑14• ⁶And Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done? She hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath committed fornication.
⁷And I said, After she hath done all these things, she will return unto me; but she returned not. And her sister Judah, the treacherous, saw it.
⁸And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared not, but went and committed fornication also.
¹¹And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath shewn herself more just than treacherous Judah.
¹²Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah: I will not make my face dark upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah; I will not keep anger for ever.
¹³Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast turned thy ways hither and thither to the strangers under every green tree; and ye have not hearkened to my voice, saith Jehovah.
¹⁴Return, backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you, and I will take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion. (Jer. 3:6‑8,11‑14)

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Jer. 5:6• ⁶Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall waste them; the leopard lurketh against their cities, every one that goeth out thence is torn in pieces: for their transgressions are multiplied, their backslidings are increased. (Jer. 5:6)

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Jer. 8:5• ⁵Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back with a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. (Jer. 8:5)

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Hos. 4:16• ¹⁶For Israel is refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide pasture. (Hos. 4:16)

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Hos. 11:7• ⁷Yea, my people are bent upon backsliding from me: though they call them to the Most High, none at all exalteth him. (Hos. 11:7)

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Hos. 14:1• ¹O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. (Hos. 14:1)

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Zech. 7:11• ¹¹But they refused to hearken, and turned a rebellious shoulder, and made their ears heavy, that they should not hear. (Zech. 7:11)

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Jer. 4:18• ¹⁸Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, yea, it is bitter, yea, it reacheth unto thy heart. (Jer. 4:18)

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Job 20:11‑16• ¹¹His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
¹²Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth and he hide it under his tongue,
¹³Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,
¹⁴His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.
¹⁵He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: *God shall cast them out of his belly.
¹⁶He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him. (Job 20:11‑16)

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Amos 8:10• ¹⁰And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. (Amos 8:10)

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Jer. 5:22• ²²Will ye not fear me? saith Jehovah. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have set the sand a bound for the sea by a perpetual decree, and it shall not pass it? and its waves toss themselves, but they do not prevail; and they roar, yet can they not pass over it? (Jer. 5:22)

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Jer. 36:23‑24• ²³And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, he cut it with the scribe's knife, and cast it into the fire that was in the pan until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the pan.
²⁴And they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king nor any of his servants that heard all these words. (Jer. 36:23‑24)

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Psa. 36:1• ¹To the chief Musician. A Psalm of the servant of Jehovah; of David. The transgression of the wicked uttereth within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes. (Psa. 36:1)

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Rom. 3:18• ¹⁸there is no fear of God before their eyes. (Rom. 3:18)

• Now here is the first time we get the word " backsliding." Then in the 6th, 8th, 11th, 12th, 14th, and 22nd verses of chapter iii. you get the expression. It is the characteristic word in the early part of Jeremiah. But then it supposes recovery, and that the heart will be turned back again to God, because that is what the Lord wants. He longs to have us very near Him. And do not our hearts love to be near Him? But if I am away from Him, and His hand is on me, I cannot blame Him. Is the blame His? Ah no, I know Him too well to say that. (“Backsliding in Heart” by W.T.P. Wolston)

• If there has been departure of heart from the Lord, " My fear is not in thee " (ver. 21) is true of that heart. I think that is the first step of departure; the sense of the fear of the Lord somehow dies out in the soul, and then declension begins. (“Backsliding in Heart” by W.T.P. Wolston)

• In such a condition, when other remedies have failed, it is not seldom that the principle enunciated in ver. 19 has to be used to bring the wandering one to his senses. (“Chapter 2” by H.A. Ironside)

• This is, one might say, His last resource (if souls are not otherwise brought back to Himself) to “deliver unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus” (1 Cor. 5). It has often been said that a child of God out of communion with the Father will stoop to evil reprobated even by the world—and this is doubtless true—until the very depths of the depravity is used of God to correct and reprove. So it was in the case of David, who, confessing his sin, acknowledged that he had been left to fall so low “that Thou mightest be justified when Thou speakest, and be clear when Thou judgest” (Psa. 51). (“Chapter 2” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thine own wickedness chastiseth thee, and thy backslidings reprove thee: know then and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

W. Kelly Translation

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Thine own wickedness chastiseth thee, and thy backslidings reprove thee: know then and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)