Jeremiah 2:31 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³¹ Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where thou hast not prostuted thyself: Thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for them as a robber in the wilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications, and with thy wickedness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ O generation [that you are]! Behold, consider, and regard the word of the Lord: Have I been a wilderness to Israel [like a land without food]? A land of deep darkness [like a way without light]? Why do My people say, We have broken loose [we are free and will roam at large]; we will come no more to You?

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness? wherefore say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more unto thee?

Common English Bible

³¹ People of this generation, listen closely to the LORD’s word: Have I been a wasteland to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why then do my people say, “We have wandered far away; we’ll come to you no longer”?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Consider the word of the Lord. Have I become like a wilderness to Israel, or like a land late to bear fruit? Then why have my people said, 'We are withdrawing; we will no longer approach you'?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ See ye the word of the Lord: Am I become a wilderness to Israel, or a lateward springing land? Why then have my people said: We are revolted, we will come to thee no more?

Jeremiah 2:31 Cross References

1 Kings 11:22

7 And this is the cause of his rebellion against him, for Solomon built Mello, and filled up the breach of the city of David his father.

2 Chronicles 31:10

5 And under his charge were Eden, and Benjamin, Jesue, and Semeias, and Amarias, and Sechenias, in the cities of the priests, to distribute faithfully portions to their brethren, both little and great:

Job 21:14

9 God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.

Psalm 10:4

1 For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face not to see to the end.

Psalm 12:4

How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Proverbs 30:9

6 Hell, and the mouth of the womb, and the earth which is not satisfied with water: and the fire never saith: It is enough.

Isaiah 45:19

They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not save him that carried them, and they themselves shall go into captivity.

Jeremiah 2:20

8 Where are the gods, whom thou hast made thee? let them arise and deliver thee in the time of thy affliction: for according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda.

Jeremiah 2:25

3 Why dost thou endeavor to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou who has also taught thy malices to be thy ways,

Jeremiah 5:5

3 The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them.

Jeremiah 5:6

4 Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: Because you have spoken this word, behold I will make my words in thy mouth as fire, and this people as wood, and it shall devour them.

Ezekiel 14:5

3 Son of man, when a land shall sin against me, so as to transgress grievously, I will stretch forth my hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof: and I will send famine upon it, and will destroy man and beast out of it.

Hosea 13:6

4 I will deliver them out of the hand of death. I will redeem them from death : O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite: comfort is hidden from my eyes.

Amos 1:1

Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four I will not convert it: because they have shut up an entire captivity in Edom, and have not remembered the covenant of brethren.

Micah 6:9

Woe is me, for I am become as one that gleaneth in autumn the grapes of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat, my soul desired the firstripe figs.

1 Corinthians 4:8

7 For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest son and faithful in the Lord; who will put you in mind of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus; as I teach every where in every church.

Deuteronomy 31:20

5 He commanded the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord. saying:

Deuteronomy 32:15

0 And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.

Deuteronomy 32:18

3 I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.