TOPICAL BIBLE
Condescension Of God
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Isaiah 43:18Remember not former things, And ancient things consider not.Isaiah 43:19Lo, I am doing a new thing, now it springeth up, Do ye not know it? Yea, I put in a wilderness a way, In a desolate place—floods.Isaiah 45:11Thus said Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel, and his Former: Ask Me of the things coming concerning My sons, Yea, concerning the work of My hands, ye command Me.’Isaiah 65:1I have been inquired of by those who asked not, I have been found by those who sought Me not, I have said, ‘Behold Me, behold Me,’ Unto a nation not calling in My name.Isaiah 65:2I have spread out My hands all the day Unto an apostate people, Who are going in the way not good after their own thoughts.Isaiah 65:3The people who are provoking Me to anger, To My face continually, Sacrificing in gardens, and making perfume on the bricks:Isaiah 65:4Who are dwelling among sepulchres, And lodge in reserved places, Who are eating flesh of the sow, And a piece of abominable things—their vessels.Isaiah 65:5Who are saying, ‘Keep to thyself, come not nigh to me, For I have declared thee unholy.’ These are a smoke in Mine anger, A fire burning all the day.Isaiah 65:6Lo, it is written before Me: ‘I am not silent, but have recompensed; And I have recompensed into their bosom,Isaiah 65:7Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, said Jehovah, Who have made perfume on the mountains, And on the heights have reproached Me, And I have measured their former work into their bosom.’Isaiah 65:8Thus said Jehovah: As the new wine is found in the cluster, And one hath said, ‘Destroy it not for a blessing is in it,’ So I do for My servants’ sake, not to destroy the whole.Isaiah 65:9And I have brought out from Jacob a seed, And from Judah a possessor of My mount, And possess it do My chosen ones, And My servants do dwell there.Isaiah 65:10And Sharon hath been for the habitation of a flock, And the valley of Achor for the lying down of a herd, For My people who have sought Me.Isaiah 65:11And ye are those forsaking Jehovah, Who are forgetting My holy mountain, Who are setting in array for Gad a table, And who are filling for Meni a mixture.Isaiah 65:12And I have numbered you for the sword, And all of you for slaughter bow down, Because I called, and ye have not answered, I have spoken, and ye have not hearkened, And ye do the evil thing in Mine eyes, And on that which I desired not—fixed.Isaiah 65:13Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, My servants do eat, and ye do hunger, Lo, My servants do drink, and ye do thirst, Lo, My servants rejoice, and ye are ashamed,Isaiah 65:14Lo, My servants sing from joy of heart, And ye cry from pain of heart, And from breaking of spirit ye do howl.Isaiah 65:15And ye have left your name For an oath for My chosen ones, And the Lord Jehovah hath put thee to death, And to His servants He giveth another name.Isaiah 65:16So that he who is blessing himself in the earth, Doth bless himself In the God of faithfulness, And he who is swearing in the earth, Doth swear by the God of faithfulness, Because the former distresses have been forgotten, And because they have been hid from Mine eyes.Jeremiah 3:1Saying, ‘Lo, one sendeth away his wife, And she hath gone from him, And she hath been to another man, Doth he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And thou hast committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of Jehovah.Jeremiah 3:2Lift thine eyes to the high places, and see, Where hast thou not been lain with? On the ways thou hast sat for them, As an Arab in a wilderness, And thou defilest the land, By thy fornications, and by thy wickedness.Jeremiah 3:3And withheld are showers, and gathered rain hath not been. The forehead of a whorish woman thou hast, Thou hast refused to be ashamed.Jeremiah 3:4Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, ‘My father, Thou art the leader of my youth?Jeremiah 3:5Doth He keep to the age? watch for ever?’ Lo, these things thou hast spoken, And thou dost the evil things, and prevailest.Jeremiah 3:6And Jehovah saith unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, ‘Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? She is going on every high mountain, and unto the place of every green tree, and committeth fornication there.Jeremiah 3:7And I say, after her doing all these, Unto Me thou dost turn back, and she hath not turned back, and see it doth her treacherous sister Judah.Jeremiah 3:8And I see when (for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery) I have sent her away, and I give the bill of her divorce unto her, that treacherous Judah her sister hath not feared, and goeth and committeth fornication—she also.Jeremiah 3:9And it hath come to pass, from the vileness of her fornication, that the land is defiled, and she committeth fornication with stone and with wood.Jeremiah 3:10And even in all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned back unto Me with all her heart, but with falsehood, an affirmation of Jehovah.’Jeremiah 3:11And Jehovah saith unto me: ‘Justified herself hath backsliding Israel, More than treacherous Judah.Jeremiah 3:12Go, and thou hast proclaimed these words toward the north, and hast said, Turn back, O backsliding Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah! I cause not Mine anger to fall upon you, For I am kind, an affirmation of Jehovah, I watch not to the age.Jeremiah 3:13Only, know thine iniquity, For against Jehovah thy God thou hast transgressed, And thou dost scatter thy ways to strangers, Under every green tree, And to My voice thou hast not hearkened, An affirmation of Jehovah.Jeremiah 3:14Turn back, O backsliding sons, An affirmation of Jehovah. For I have ruled over you, And taken you one of a city, and two of a family, And have brought you to Zion,Jeremiah 3:15And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart, And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding.Jeremiah 4:1If thou dost turn back, O Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah, unto Me turn back, And if thou dost turn aside Thine abominations from My face, Then thou dost not bemoan.Jeremiah 4:2And thou hast sworn—Jehovah liveth, In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness, And blessed themselves in Him have nations, And in Him they boast themselves.Jeremiah 4:3For thus said Jehovah, To the man of Judah, and to Jerusalem: Till for yourselves tillage, And do not sow unto the thorns.Jeremiah 4:4Be circumcised to Jehovah, And turn aside the foreskins of your heart, O man of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My fury go out as fire, and hath burned, And there is none quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.Jeremiah 4:5Declare in Judah, and in Jerusalem sound, And say ye, ‘Blow a trumpet in the land,’ Call ye fully, and say ye: ‘Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced city.’Jeremiah 4:6Lift up an ensign Zionward, Strengthen yourselves, stand not still, For evil I am bringing in from the north, And a great destruction.Jeremiah 4:7Gone up hath a lion from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations hath journeyed, He hath come forth from his place To make thy land become a desolation, Thy cities are laid waste, without inhabitant.Jeremiah 4:8For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.Jeremiah 4:9And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah: ‘Perish doth the heart of the king, And the heart of the princes, And astonished have been the priests, And the prophets do wonder.’Jeremiah 4:10And I say, ‘Ah, Lord Jehovah, Surely thou hast entirely forgotten this people and Jerusalem, saying, Peace is for you, And struck hath a sword unto the soul!’Jeremiah 4:11At that time it is said of this people, And of Jerusalem: ‘A dry wind of high places in the wilderness,’ The way of the daughter of My people, (Not for winnowing, nor for cleansing,)Jeremiah 4:12A full wind from these doth come for Me, Now, also, I speak judgments with them.Jeremiah 4:13Lo, as clouds he cometh up, And as a hurricane his chariots, Lighter than eagles have been his horses, Woe to us, for we have been spoiled.Jeremiah 4:14Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?Jeremiah 4:15For a voice is declaring from Dan, And sounding sorrow from mount Ephraim.Jeremiah 4:16Make ye mention to the nations, Lo, sound ye to Jerusalem: ‘Besiegers are coming from the land afar off, And they give forth against cities of Judah their voice.Jeremiah 4:17As the keepers of a field They have been against her round about, For with Me she hath been rebellious, An affirmation of Jehovah.’Jeremiah 4:18Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee, This is thy vexation, for it is bitter, For it hath struck unto thy heart.Jeremiah 4:19My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul—a shout of battle!Jeremiah 4:20Destruction on destruction is proclaimed, For spoiled hath been all the land, Suddenly spoiled have been my tents, In a moment—my curtains.Jeremiah 4:21Till when do I see an ensign? Do I hear the voice of a trumpet?Jeremiah 4:22For my people are foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons are they, yea, they are not intelligent, Wise are they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.Jeremiah 4:23I looked to the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.Jeremiah 4:24I have looked to the mountains, And lo, they are trembling. And all the hills moved themselves lightly.Jeremiah 4:25I have looked, and lo, man is not, And all fowls of the heavens have fled.Jeremiah 4:26I have looked, and lo, The fruitful place is a wilderness, And all its cities have been broken down, Because of Jehovah, Because of the fierceness of His anger.