Jeremiah 2 (NET)

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Jeremiah 2:1¹The Lord ’s message came to me,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 23:28 Ezek 7:1 Heb 1:1 Jer 1:11 Jer 7:1 2 Pet 1:21

Jeremiah 2:2²“Go and declare in the hearing of the people of Jerusalem: ‘This is what the Lord says: “I have fond memories of you, how devoted you were to me in your early years. I remember how you loved me like a new bride; you followed me through the wilderness, through a land that had never been planted.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 16:60 Ezek 16:8 Jer 11:6 Deut 2:7 Deut 8:2 Hos 2:15 Isa 63:7-14 Jer 7:2 Exod 14:31-15:20 Jer 2:6

Jeremiah 2:3³Israel was set apart to the Lord; they were like the firstfruits of a harvest to him. All who tried to devour them were punished; disaster came upon them,” says the Lord.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jas 1:18 Rev 14:4 Deut 7:6 Exod 4:22-23 Isa 41:11 Rom 11:16 1 Pet 2:9 Deut 14:2 Eph 1:4 Exod 19:5-6

Jeremiah 2:4⁴Now listen to the Lord ’s message, you descendants of Jacob, all you family groups from the nation of Israel.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hos 4:1 Isa 51:1-4 Jer 13:15 Jer 19:3 Jer 31:1 Jer 33:24 Jer 34:4 Jer 44:24-26 Jer 5:21 Jer 7:2

Jeremiah 2:5⁵This is what the Lord says: “What fault could your ancestors have possibly found in me that they strayed so far from me? They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 17:15 Rom 1:21 Jer 10:14-15 Jonah 2:8 Ps 115:8 1 Sam 12:21 Acts 14:15 Deut 32:21 Isa 44:9 Jer 51:17-18

Jeremiah 2:6⁶They did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of valleys and gorges, through a land of desert and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 32:10 Deut 8:14-16 Hos 13:4 Isa 63:11-13 2 Kgs 2:14 Exod 14:1-15 Hos 12:13 Isa 63:9 Isa 64:7 Jer 2:2

Jeremiah 2:7⁷I brought you into a fertile land so you could enjoy its fruits and its rich bounty. But when you entered my land, you defiled it; you made the land I call my own loathsome to me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 8:7-9 Jer 16:18 Num 13:27 Ezek 36:17 Jer 3:1 Jer 3:9 Ps 106:38-39 Deut 11:10-12 Deut 21:23 Deut 6:10-11

Jeremiah 2:8⁸Your priests did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those responsible for teaching my law did not really know me. Your rulers rebelled against me. Your prophets prophesied in the name of the god Baal. They all worshiped idols that could not help them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hab 2:18 2 Cor 4:2 Hos 4:6 Jer 10:21 Jer 5:31 Rom 2:17-24 Isa 29:10 Isa 30:5 John 16:3 Luke 11:52

Jeremiah 2:9⁹“So, once more I will state my case against you,” says the Lord. “I will also state it against your children and grandchildren.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 20:35-36 Exod 20:5 Jer 2:35 Mic 6:2 Hos 2:2 Isa 3:13 Isa 43:26 Jer 2:29 Lev 20:5

Jeremiah 2:10¹⁰Go west across the sea to the coasts of Cyprus and see. Send someone east to Kedar and have them look carefully. See if such a thing as this has ever happened:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 120:5 1 Chr 1:7 1 Chr 23:1 1 Chr 23:12 1 Cor 5:1 Dan 11:30 Ezek 27:6 Gen 10:4-5 Gen 25:13 Isa 21:16

Jeremiah 2:11¹¹Has a nation ever changed its gods (even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 1:23 Isa 37:19 Jer 16:20 Ps 106:20 Mic 4:5 1 Cor 8:4 Jer 2:8 Ps 115:4 Deut 33:29 Jer 2:5

Jeremiah 2:12¹²Be amazed at this, O heavens. Be shocked and utterly dumbfounded,” says the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 1:2 Deut 32:1 Jer 22:29 Jer 6:19 Mic 6:2 Matt 27:45 Matt 27:50-53

Jeremiah 2:13¹³“Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: They have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that cannot even hold water.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 4:14 John 7:37 Rev 21:6 Jer 17:13 Ps 36:9 Rev 22:1 Rev 22:17 Isa 55:2 Jer 4:22 Ps 81:11-13

Jeremiah 2:14¹⁴“Israel is not a slave, is he? He was not born into slavery, was he? If not, why then is he being carried off?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 4:22 Eccl 2:7 Gen 15:3 Isa 50:1

Jeremiah 2:15¹⁵Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him; they raise their voices in triumph. They have laid his land waste; his cities have been burned down and deserted.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 4:7 Jer 50:17 Isa 1:7 Isa 5:29 Jer 9:11 Amos 3:12 Amos 3:4 Amos 3:8 Ezek 5:14 Hos 11:10

Jeremiah 2:16¹⁶Even the soldiers from Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked your skulls, people of Israel.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 46:14 Jer 43:7-9 Deut 33:20 Isa 19:13 Jer 44:1 Ezek 30:16 2 Kgs 18:21 2 Kgs 23:33 Ezek 30:13 Isa 1:6-7

Jeremiah 2:17¹⁷You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the Lord your God when he was leading you along the right path.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 4:18 Jer 2:19 Jer 2:13 Deut 28:15-68 Deut 32:10 Hos 13:9 Lev 26:15-46 Ps 107:7 Ps 77:20 1 Chr 28:9

Jeremiah 2:18¹⁸What good will it do you then to go down to Egypt to seek help from the Egyptians? What good will it do you to go over to Assyria to seek help from the Assyrians?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 13:3 Hos 7:11 Isa 31:1 Jer 2:36 2 Chr 28:20-21 2 Kgs 16:7-9 Ezek 17:15 Hos 5:13 Isa 30:1-7 Jer 37:5-10

Jeremiah 2:19¹⁹Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful it was for you to reject me, the Lord your God, to show no respect for me,” says the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 3:9 Jer 2:17 Jer 4:18 Ps 36:1 Hos 11:7 Hos 5:5 Amos 8:10 Jer 5:6 Hos 14:1 Jer 3:6-8

Jeremiah 2:20²⁰“Indeed, long ago you threw off my authority and refused to be subject to me. You said, ‘I will not serve you.’ Instead, you gave yourself to other gods on every high hill and under every green tree, like a prostitute sprawls out before her lovers.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 12:2 Lev 26:13 Jer 17:2 Hos 3:3 Isa 1:21 Jer 30:8 1 Kgs 12:32 1 Sam 12:10 Deut 15:15 Deut 26:17

Jeremiah 2:21²¹I planted you in the land like a special vine of the very best stock. Why in the world have you turned into something like a wild vine that produces rotten, foul-smelling grapes?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 5:4 Exod 15:17 John 15:1 Ps 44:2 Ps 80:8 Deut 4:37 Deut 32:32 Gen 26:3-5 Luke 20:9 Mark 12:1

Jeremiah 2:22²²You can try to wash away your guilt with a strong detergent. You can use as much soap as you want. But the stain of your guilt is still there for me to see,” says the Sovereign Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 17:1 Hos 13:12 Job 14:17 Jer 16:17 Job 9:30-31 Ps 130:3 Ps 90:8 Amos 8:7 Deut 32:34

Jeremiah 2:23²³“How can you say, ‘I have not made myself unclean. I have not paid allegiance to the gods called Baal.’ Just look at the way you have behaved in the Valley of Hinnom! Think about the things you have done there! You are like a flighty, young female camel that rushes here and there, crisscrossing its path.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 7:31 Prov 30:12 1 John 1:8-10 1 Sam 15:13-14 Esth 8:16 Ezek 16:1-63 Ezek 23:1-49 Gen 3:12-13 Isa 57:5-6 Jer 2:33-35

Jeremiah 2:24²⁴You are like a wild female donkey brought up in the wilderness. In her lust she sniffs the wind to get the scent of a male. No one can hold her back when she is in heat. None of the males need wear themselves out chasing after her. At mating time she is easy to find.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 14:6 Hos 5:15 Jer 2:27 Job 39:5-8 Job 11:12

Jeremiah 2:25²⁵Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say, ‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 32:16 Jer 18:12 Jer 3:13 Rom 8:24 2 Chr 28:22 Deut 28:48 Deut 29:19-20 Isa 2:6 Isa 20:2-4 Isa 57:10

Jeremiah 2:26²⁶Just as a thief has to suffer dishonor when he is caught, so the people of Israel will suffer dishonor for what they have done. So will their kings and officials, their priests and their prophets.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezra 9:7 Jer 32:32 Neh 9:32-34 Dan 9:6-8 Isa 1:29 Jer 2:36 Jer 3:24-25 Jer 48:27 Prov 6:30-31 Rom 6:21

Jeremiah 2:27²⁷They say to a wooden idol, ‘You are my father.’ They say to a stone image, ‘You gave birth to me.’ Yes, they have turned away from me instead of turning to me. Yet when they are in trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 26:16 Hos 7:14 Ezek 23:35 Ezek 8:16 Hab 2:18-19 Hos 5:15 Isa 44:9-20 Isa 46:6-8 Jer 10:8 Jer 18:17

Jeremiah 2:28²⁸But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them save you when you are in trouble. The sad fact is that you have as many gods as you have towns, Judah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 32:37 Jer 11:13 Isa 45:20 Judg 10:14 2 Kgs 17:30-31 Isa 46:7 2 Kgs 3:13 Hos 10:1 Isa 46:2

Jeremiah 2:29²⁹Why do you try to refute me? All of you have rebelled against me,” says the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 9:11 Jer 5:1 Jer 6:13 Jer 2:23 Jer 2:35 Jer 3:2 Jer 9:2-6 Rom 3:19

Jeremiah 2:30³⁰“It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Neh 9:26 1 Thess 2:15 Acts 7:52 Isa 1:5 Jer 26:20-24 Jer 5:3 Isa 9:13 Jer 7:28 Matt 23:29 1 Kgs 19:10

Jeremiah 2:31³¹You people of this generation, listen to the Lord ’s message: “Have I been like a wilderness to you, Israel? Have I been like a dark and dangerous land to you? Why then do you say, ‘We are free to wander. We will not come to you anymore?’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 12:7-9 Deut 32:15 1 Cor 4:8 2 Chr 31:10 Amos 1:1 Deut 31:20 Deut 8:12-14 Hos 13:6 Hos 2:7-8 Isa 45:19

Jeremiah 2:32³²Does a young woman forget to put on her jewels? Does a bride forget to put on her bridal attire? But my people have forgotten me for more days than can even be counted.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 106:21 Jer 13:25 Jer 2:11 Jer 3:21 Isa 17:10 Hos 8:14 Isa 61:10 Ps 9:17 Jer 13:10 Jer 18:15

Jeremiah 2:33³³“My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 16:47 Isa 57:7-10 2 Chr 33:9 Ezek 16:27 Ezek 16:51-52 Hos 2:5-7 Jer 2:23 Jer 2:36 Jer 3:1-2 Hos 2:13

Jeremiah 2:34³⁴Even your clothes are stained with the lifeblood of the poor who had not done anything wrong; you did not catch them breaking into your homes. Yet, in spite of all these things you have done,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 21:16 2 Kgs 24:4 Jer 19:4 Exod 22:2 Ezek 16:20-21 Ezek 20:31 Ezek 24:7 Isa 57:5 Isa 59:7 Jer 6:15

Jeremiah 2:35³⁵you say, ‘I have not done anything wrong, so the Lord cannot really be angry with me any more.’ But, watch out! I will bring down judgment on you because you say, ‘I have not committed any sin.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 28:13 1 John 1:8-10 Isa 58:3 Jer 2:23 Jer 2:29 Jer 2:9 Jer 25:31 Job 33:9 Rom 7:9

Jeremiah 2:36³⁶Why do you constantly go about changing your political allegiances? You will get no help from Egypt just as you got no help from Assyria.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 31:22 Hos 5:13 2 Chr 28:16 2 Chr 28:20-21 Hos 12:1 Jer 2:23 Ezek 29:7 Hos 10:6 Hos 14:3 Hos 7:11

Jeremiah 2:37³⁷Moreover, you will come away from Egypt with your hands covering your faces in sorrow and shame because the Lord will not allow your reliance on them to be successful and you will not gain any help from them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 13:19 Ezek 17:15-20 Jer 17:5 Jer 37:7-10 2 Chr 13:12 Isa 10:4 Jer 2:36 Jer 32:5 Num 14:41