...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...

...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...

...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...and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts." — But he adds — / will make a wall,...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...mind, that we never can be happy while in a state of disobedience to his holy law; therefore he says, "Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee." Jer. ii. 19. "Say ye to the righteous, it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their...

...blameame. But it is corrective also ; " thine own backslidings shall reprove thee," Jer. ii. 19. See now, " that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken me," that thou hast withdrawn thvseli", that thou hast retired and neglected me : " thy own backslidings...

...waters of Sihor ? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river ? 19 ainst thee, and will execute and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. '20 1} For of old time I have broken...