Jeremiah 2:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.

Cross References

Psalm 129:1

A Song of the going up. Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young let Israel now say;

Exodus 14:31

And Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done against the Egyptians, and the fear of the Lord came on the people and they had faith in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

Exodus 16:8

And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord.

Proverbs 1:20

Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;

Song of Solomon 3:11

Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.

Song of Solomon 3:6

Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?

Isaiah 58:1

Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.

Jeremiah 11:6

And the Lord said to me, Give out these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Give ear to the words of this agreement and do them.

Jeremiah 19:2

And go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, by the way into the door of broken pots, and there say in a loud voice the words which I will give you;

Jeremiah 2:1

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Jeremiah 2:6

And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

Jeremiah 3:4

Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

Jeremiah 7:2

Take your place in the doorway of the Lord's house, and give out this word there, and say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who come inside these doors to give worship to the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:22

And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were uncovered and without clothing, stretched out in your blood.

Ezekiel 16:60

But still I will keep in mind the agreement made with you in the days when you were young, and I will make with you an eternal agreement.

Ezekiel 16:8

Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.

Ezekiel 23:19

But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had been a loose woman in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:3

They were acting like loose women in Egypt; when they were young their behaviour was loose: there their breasts were crushed, even the points of their young breasts were crushed.

Ezekiel 23:8

And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire.

Hosea 11:1

When Israel was a child he was dear to me; and I took my son out of Egypt.

Hosea 2:15

And I will give her vine-gardens from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will give her answer there as in the days when she was young, and as in the time when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Hosea 2:17

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.

Hosea 2:7

And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.

Hosea 8:1

Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.

Hosea 9:10

I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.

Jonah 1:2

Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.

Matthew 11:15

He who has ears, let him give ear.

Luke 12:13

And one of the people said to him, Master, give an order to my brother to make division of the heritage with me.

Deuteronomy 2:7

For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.

Deuteronomy 33:3

All his holy ones are at his hand; they go at his feet; they are lifted up on his wings.

Deuteronomy 8:2

And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.

James 4:4

O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

Revelation 2:4

But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.