Jeremiah
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Language in Jeremiah

  1. Jeremiah's big on calling people and places "whores" and "harlots." 2:20

  2. God compares Jerusalem's sinful ways to a promiscuous woman, or a wild donkey in heat. 2:24

  3. "Thou hast played the harlot with many lovers." 3:1

  4. "In the ways thou hast sat for them ..." A woman can't even sit anymore without being condemned by God. 3:2

  5. Jeremiah loves to insult people. His favorite insult is to call someone a whore. In this verse he accuses Jedah of having a "whore's forehead." 3:3

  6. More talk of harlots who have sex under every tree. 3:6

  7. Judah commits adultery with "stocks and stones." 3:9

  8. Jeremiah just can't quit talking about sex under the trees. 3:13

  9. "Circumcise the foreskins of your heart."  4:4

  10. "As fed horses in the morning: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife." 5:8

  11. "Behold, their ear is uncircumcised." 6:10

  12. God will cover the earth with dead bodies that will not be buried. "They shall be for dung upon the face of the earth." 8:2

  13. Don't just circumcise your penis. Circumcise you heart as well. 9:26

  14. God compares the destruction of Jerusalem to the rape of a woman who deserves to be raped because she has sinned. 13:22

  15. God plans to expose Jerusalem's private parts to the world by lifting her skirt over her head, so to speak. He's seen her commit whoredoms and abominations and whatnot on the hills, and he's getting darned sick of it! 13:26-27

  16. "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you." 27:27

  17. God will kill so many people that the entire earth will be covered with their dead bodies. No one is to mourn them or even bury them; "they shall be dung upon the ground." 16:4, 25:31-33

  18. Jeremiah asks God to make Moab drunk, and predicts that Moab will "wallow in his vomit." 48:26