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Jer 9:2 — Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they [be] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

that I had		Psa 55:6-8; Psa 120:5-7; Mic 7:1-7
for		Jer 5:7,8; Jer 23:10; Eze 22:10,11; Hsa 4:2; Hsa 7:4; Jam 4:4
an assembly		Jer 12:1,6; Hsa 5:7; Hsa 6:7; Mic 7:2-5; Zep 3:4; Mal 2:11

Correlating Passages

that I had

	Psa 55:6	And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! [for then] would I fly away, and be at rest.
	Psa 55:7	Lo, [then] would I wander far off, [and] remain in the wilderness. Selah.
	Psa 55:8	I would hasten my escape from the windy storm [and] tempest.
	Psa 120:5	Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, [that] I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
	Psa 120:6	My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
	Psa 120:7	I [am for] peace: but when I speak, they [are] for war.
	Mic 7:1	Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: [there is] no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
	Mic 7:2	The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
	Mic 7:3	That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
	Mic 7:4	The best of them [is] as a brier: the most upright [is sharper] than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen [and] thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
	Mic 7:5	Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
	Mic 7:6	For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies [are] the men of his own house.
	Mic 7:7	Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

for

	Jer 5:7	How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
	Jer 5:8	They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
	Jer 23:10	For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force [is] not right.
	Eze 22:10	In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
	Eze 22:11	And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
	Hsa 4:2	By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
	Hsa 7:4	They [are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
	Jam 4:4	Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

an assembly

	Jer 12:1	Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
	Jer 12:6	For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
	Hsa 5:7	They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
	Hsa 6:7	But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
	Mic 7:2	The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
	Mic 7:3	That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
	Mic 7:4	The best of them [is] as a brier: the most upright [is sharper] than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen [and] thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
	Mic 7:5	Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
	Zep 3:4	Her prophets [are] light [and] treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
	Mal 2:11	Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 9:2," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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