Jeremiah 2:25 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁵ “Keep your foot from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is useless, because I love strangers, and after them I 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.'

Jeremiah 2:25 Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:22

And in the time of his distress Sovereign Aḥ

2 Chronicles 28:23

and he slaughtered to the mighty ones of Darmeseq, those smiting him, saying, “Because the mighty ones of the sovereigns of Aram help them, I offer to them and they help me.” But they were to cause him and all Yisra’ĕ

Isaiah 2:6

For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Yaʽ

Isaiah 57:10

“You have wearied yourselves with your many wanderings, yet you did not say, ‘I give up!’ You have found the life of your hand, therefore you were not grieved.

Jeremiah 13:21

What would you say when He visits you? For you have taught them to be chiefs, to be head over you. Do not pangs seize you, like a woman in labour?

Jeremiah 13:22

And when you say in your heart, “Why has this come upon me?” It is because of your great crookedness that your skirts have been uncovered, your heels made bare.

Jeremiah 14:10

Thus said יהוה  to this people, “So they have loved to wander, they have not restrained their feet. Therefore יהוה  has not accepted them. Now He does remember their crookedness and punish their sins.”

Jeremiah 18:12

But they shall say, “It is no use! For we walk according to our own plans, and we do each one the stubbornness of his evil heart.”

Jeremiah 2:31

“O generation, see the word of יהוה! Have I been a wilderness to Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 22:20

“Go up to Leḇ

Jeremiah 22:21

“I have spoken to you in your ease, but you said, ‘I do not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, for you did not obey My voice.

Jeremiah 3:13

‘Only, acknowledge your crookedness, because you have transgressed against יהוה  your Elohim, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice,’ declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 44:17

“But we shall do whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the sovereigness of the heavens and pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our sovereigns and our heads, in the cities of Yehuḏ

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps bitterly at night, And her tears are upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no comforter for her. All her friends have betrayed her, They have become her enemies.

Lamentations 4:4

The tongue of the infant has clung To the roof of its mouth for thirst; Children asked for bread, No one breaks it for them.

Ezekiel 20:32

“And what comes up in your spirit shall never be, when you say, ‘Let us be like the gentiles, like the tribes in other lands, serving wood and stone.’

Hosea 2:3

lest I strip her naked, and shall set her up as on the day she was born, and shall make her like a wilderness, and shall set her like a dry land, and shall put her to death with thirst.

Hosea 2:5

“For their mother has whored, she who conceived them has acted shamelessly. For she said, ‘I go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.’

Malachi 3:14

“You have said, ‘It is worthless to serve Elohim. And what did we gain when we guarded His Charge, and when we walked as mourners before יהוה  of hosts?

Luke 15:22

“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.

Luke 16:24

“And crying out he said, ‘Father Aḇ

Romans 8:24

For in this expectation we were saved, but expectation that is seen is not expectation, for when anyone sees, does he expect it?

Deuteronomy 28:48

you shall serve your enemies whom יהוה  sends against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in need of all. And he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 32:16

“They moved Him to jealousy with foreign matters, With abominations they provoked Him.