Jeremiah 2:31

Bible in Basic English 1965

O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?

Cross References

1 Kings 11:22

But Pharaoh said to him, What have you been short of while you have been with me, that you are desiring to go back to your country? And he said, Nothing; but even so, send me back.

2 Chronicles 31:10

And Azariah, the chief priest, of the family of Zadok, said in answer, From the time when the people first came with their offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had food enough, and more than enough: for the blessing of the Lord is on his people; and there is this great store which has not been used.

Job 21:14

Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.

Psalm 10:4

The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

Psalm 12:4

They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?

Proverbs 30:9

For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.

Isaiah 45:19

I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness.

Jeremiah 2:20

For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman

Jeremiah 2:25

Do not let your foot be without shoes, or your throat dry from need of water: but you said, There is no hope: no, for I have been a lover of strange gods, and after them I will go.

Jeremiah 5:5

I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.

Jeremiah 5:6

And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.

Ezekiel 14:5

So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.

Hosea 13:6

When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.

Amos 1:1

The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa; what he saw about Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earth-shock.

Micah 6:9

The voice of the Lord is crying out to the town: Give ear, you tribes and the meeting of the town.

1 Corinthians 4:8

For even now you are full, even now you have wealth, you have been made kings without us: truly, I would be glad if you were kings, so that we might be kings with you.

Deuteronomy 31:20

For when I have taken them into the land named in my oath to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, and they have made themselves full of food and are fat, then they will be turned to other gods and will give them worship, no longer honouring me or keeping my agreement.

Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.

Deuteronomy 32:18

You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God who gave you birth.