Jeremiah 3:25

Bible in Basic English 1965

Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

Cross References

Psalm 106:6

We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

Psalm 106:7

Our fathers did not give thought to your wonders in Egypt; they did not keep in memory the great number of your mercies, but gave you cause for wrath at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

Psalm 109:29

Let my haters be clothed with shame, covering themselves with shame as with a robe.

Proverbs 13:18

Need and shame will be the fate of him who is uncontrolled by training; but he who takes note of teaching will be honoured.

Proverbs 5:13

I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!

Isaiah 48:8

Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.

Isaiah 50:11

See, all you who make a fire, arming yourselves with burning branches: go in the flame of your fire, and among the branches you have put a light to. This will you have from my hand, you will make your bed in sorrow.

Jeremiah 11:13

For the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah; and for every street in Jerusalem you have put up altars to the Baal for burning perfumes to the Baal.

Jeremiah 12:13

Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

Jeremiah 14:20

We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.

Jeremiah 14:7

Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.

Jeremiah 2:17

Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

Jeremiah 2:2

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.

Jeremiah 2:26

As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

Jeremiah 22:21

My word came to you in the time of your well-being; but you said, I will not give ear. This has been your way from your earliest years, you did not give attention to my voice.

Jeremiah 3:13

Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:19

Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.

Jeremiah 6:26

O daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he who makes waste will come on us suddenly.

Jeremiah 7:19

Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame?

Jeremiah 8:14

Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:18

Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.

Lamentations 5:16

The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

Lamentations 5:7

Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

Ezekiel 2:3

And he said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to an uncontrolled nation which has gone against me: they and their fathers have been sinners against me even to this very day.

Ezekiel 36:32

Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel.

Ezekiel 44:13

And they will not come near me to do the work of priests to me, or come near any of my holy things, or the things which are most holy: but their shame will be on them, and the punishment for the disgusting things which they have done.

Ezekiel 7:18

And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear will be covering them; and shame will be on all faces, and the hair gone from all their heads.

Daniel 12:2

And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.

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.

Zephaniah 1:17

And I will send trouble on men so that they will go about like the blind, because they have done evil against the Lord: and their blood will be drained out like dust, and their strength like waste.

Romans 6:21

What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

Judges 2:2

And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?