Jeremiah 2:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ Keep your feet from going bare and your throat from thirst. But you said, “It is no use, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ [Cease from your mad running after idols, from which you get nothing but bitter injury.] Keep your feet from being unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, It is hopeless! For I have loved strangers and foreigners, and after them I will go.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst. But thou saidst, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

Common English Bible

²⁵ Don’t run about until your feet are blistered and your throat is parched. But you say, “What’s the use? I have fallen in love with foreign gods, and I must pursue them.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ You should keep your foot from being naked, and your throat from being thirsty. But you have said: 'I have lost hope. I will not do it. For certainly, I have loved strangers, and I will walk after them.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ Keep thy foot from being bare and thy throat from thirst. But thou saidst: I have lost all hope, I will not do it: for I have loved strangers and I will walk after them.

Jeremiah 2:25 Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:22

In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the Lord—this same King Ahaz.

2 Chronicles 28:23

For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram helped them, I will sacrifice to them so that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.

Isaiah 2:6

You have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, for they are full of diviners from the East and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with foreigners.

Isaiah 57:10

You grew weary from your many wanderings, but you did not say, “It is no use!” You found your desire rekindled, and so you did not weaken.

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you have trained to be your allies? Will not pangs seize you like those of a woman in labor?

Jeremiah 13:22

And if you say in your heart, “Why have these things come upon me?” it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up and you are violated.

Jeremiah 14:10

Thus says the Lord concerning this people: Truly they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet; therefore the Lord does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.

Jeremiah 18:12

But they say, “It is no use! We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of our evil will.”

Jeremiah 2:31

And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord! Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, “We are free; we will come to you no more”?

Jeremiah 22:20

Go up to Lebanon and cry out, and lift up your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are crushed.

Jeremiah 22:21

I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, “I will not listen.” This has been your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed my voice.

Jeremiah 3:13

Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the Lord your God and scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree and have not obeyed my voice, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 44:17

Instead, we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her, just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials, used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. We used to have plenty of food and prospered and saw no misfortune.

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers, she has no one to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.

Lamentations 4:4

The tongue of the infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but there is nothing for them.

Ezekiel 20:32

What is in your mind shall never happen—the thought, “Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.”

Hosea 2:3

or I will strip her naked and expose her as in the day she was born and make her like a wilderness and turn her into a parched land and kill her with thirst.

Hosea 2:5

For their mother has prostituted herself; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will go after my lovers; they give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”

Malachi 3:14

You have said, “It is vain to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his command or by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts?

Luke 15:22

But the father said to his slaves, ‘Quickly, bring out a robe—the best one—and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

Luke 16:24

He called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in agony in these flames.’

Romans 8:24

For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what one already sees?

Deuteronomy 28:48

therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lack of everything. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 32:16

They made him jealous with strange gods; with abhorrent things they provoked him.