...waters of Sihor ? — Or what hast thou to do in the ways of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river ? Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings...fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts." Surely He did not deserve this at thine hand. When He was walking with thee, and thou wast coming up...

...transgressions that Christ was thus wounded, for our iniquities that he was bruised: know therefore, О my soul, and see, that it is an evil thing, and bitter, that...fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts, Jer. ii. 19. That was a great provocation to God, which nothing would atone for but such a sacrifice...

...convictions were the paternal voice of her father in heaven calling unto her and saying—"Know therefore that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God." There is no distress of spirit greater than that of the backslider who is filled with his own ways....

...things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart. 12 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee. 13 Know therefore and see, that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy...

...Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backsliding shall reprove thee: know therefore and see, that it...fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts." — But he adds — / will make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. This is another image to...

...the darkness which has sometimes clouded our paths, may be the voice of God speaking loudly to us — "Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy...thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God."T But how blessed is the consideration, that there is good ground in the word of promise, for...

...wicked arc like th« troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt Jer. ii. 19. Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee. iii. 2, 3. Thou bast polluted the land with thy wickedness : therefore there hath been no latter rain....

...those things is death." Again. Sin unavoidably brings a man sooner or later to lamentation and regret. "Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: kuow, therefore, and sec, that it is an evil thing, and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy...

...shall be filled with his own ways." " Thine own wickedness shall correct thee ; and thy backsliding shall reprove thee: know therefore and see, that it...bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God." Observe: it is both nil and bitter; evil in its nature, and bitter in its consequences. And these bitter...

...greater force to the description, as if he had said, Thou art in the bitterness of bitterness. Thus, " it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God." Now sin may be said to be bitter, (1.) Because it is exceedingly distateful to God. Hence, his soul...