Jeremiah 15:6
Jeremiah · Old Testament · Chapter 15
“Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.”Jeremiah 15:6
What Does Jeremiah 15:6 Mean?
Jeremiah 15:6 is found in the book of Jeremiah, chapter 15, verse 6 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Key themes in this passage include Repentance, and Exile & Belonging.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Jeremiah 15:6 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Jeremiah 7:24“But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.”Zephaniah 1:6“And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.”Jeremiah 2:13“For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”2 Chronicles 28:6“For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.”Amos 7:8“And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:”Isaiah 31:3“Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.”Zephaniah 1:4“I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;”Isaiah 1:4“Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.”Isaiah 42:14“I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.”Hosea 11:7“And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.”Hosea 13:14“I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.”Zechariah 7:11“But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.”Jeremiah 1:16“And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.”Jeremiah 2:17“Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?”Jeremiah 6:11“Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.”Jeremiah 6:19“Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.”Ezekiel 25:7“Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.”Ezekiel 35:3“And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.”Hosea 10:10“It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.”Malachi 2:17“Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?”
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