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Jer 15:6 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

forsaken		Jer 1:16; Jer 2:13,17,19
thou art		Jer 7:24; Jer 8:5; Isa 1:4; Isa 28:13; Hsa 4:16; Hsa 11:7; Zec 7:11
stretch		Eze 14:9; Eze 25:7; Zep 1:4
I am		Jer 6:11; Jer 20:9; Psa 78:38-40; Eze 12:26-28; Hsa 13:14; Amo 7:3-8

Correlating Passages

forsaken

	Jer 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.
	Jer 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.
	Jer 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?
	Jer 2:19	Thine own 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.

thou art

	Jer 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.
	Jer 8:5	Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
	Isa 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.
	Isa 28:13	But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
	Hsa 4:16	For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
	Hsa 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].
	Zec 7:11	But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

stretch

	Eze 14:9	And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
	Eze 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.
	Zep 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;

I am

	Jer 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.
	Jer 20:9	Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But [his word] was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not [stay].
	Psa 78:38	But he, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
	Psa 78:39	For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
	Psa 78:40	How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert!
	Eze 12:26	Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
	Eze 12:27	Son of man, behold, [they of] the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth [is] for many days [to come], and he prophesieth of the times [that are] far off.
	Eze 12:28	Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.
	Hsa 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.
	Amo 7:3	The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
	Amo 7:4	Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
	Amo 7:5	Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small.
	Amo 7:6	The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
	Amo 7:7	Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall [made] by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
	Amo 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:

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 15:6," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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