Jeremiah 2:2

Conservative English Version

to go to Jerusalem and tell everyone that he had said: When you were my young bride, you loved me and followed me through the barren desert.

Cross References

Psalm 129:1

(A song for worship.) Since the time I was young, enemies have often attacked! Let everyone in Israel say:

Exodus 14:31

Because of the mighty power he had used against the Egyptians, the Israelites worshiped him and trusted him and his servant Moses.

Exodus 16:8

Then Moses continued, "You will know it is the LORD when he gives you meat each evening and more than enough bread each morning. He is really the one you are complaining about, not us--we are nobodies--but the LORD has heard your complaints."

Proverbs 1:20

Wisdom shouts in the streets wherever crowds gather.

Song of Solomon 3:11

Now come and see the crown given to Solomon by his mother on his happy wedding day.

Song of Solomon 3:6

What do we see approaching from the desert like a cloud of smoke? With it comes the sweet smell of spices, including myrrh and frankincense.

Isaiah 58:1

Shout the message! Don't hold back. Say to my people Israel: You've sinned! You've turned against the LORD.

Jeremiah 11:6

Then the LORD told me to say to everyone on the streets of Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah: Pay attention to the commands in my agreement with you.

Jeremiah 19:2

and go to Hinnom Valley, just outside Potsherd Gate. Tell the people that I have said:

Jeremiah 2:1

The LORD told me

Jeremiah 2:6

Your ancestors refused to ask for my help, though I had rescued them from Egypt and led them through a treacherous, barren desert, where no one lives or dares to travel.

Jeremiah 3:4

You call me your father or your long-lost friend;

Jeremiah 7:2

(SEE 7:1)

Ezekiel 16:22

You were so busy sinning and being a prostitute that you refused to think about the days when you were young and were rolling around naked in your own blood.

Ezekiel 16:60

But I remember the agreement I made with you when you were young, and so I will make you a promise that will last forever.

Ezekiel 16:8

When I saw you again, you were old enough to have sex. So I covered your naked body with my own robe. Then I solemnly promised that you would belong to me and that I, the LORD God, would take care of you.

Ezekiel 23:19

Oholibah didn't stop there, but became even more immoral and acted as she had back in Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:3

While they were young and living in Egypt, they became prostitutes.

Ezekiel 23:8

Once she started doing these things in Egypt, she never stopped. Men slept with her, and she was always ready for sex.

Hosea 11:1

When Israel was a child, I loved him, and I called my son out of Egypt.

Hosea 2:15

I will return your vineyards, and then Trouble Valley will become Hopeful Valley. You will say "Yes" to me as you did in your youth, when leaving Egypt.

Hosea 2:17

I will no longer even let you mention the names of those pagan gods that you called "Master."

Hosea 2:7

She will run after her lovers, but not catch them; she will search, but not find them. Then she will say, "I'll return to my first husband. Life was better then."

Hosea 8:1

Sound a warning! Israel, you broke our agreement and ignored my teaching. Now an eagle is swooping down to attack my land.

Hosea 9:10

Israel, when I, the LORD, found you long ago it was like finding grapes in a barren desert or tender young figs. Then you worshiped Baal Peor, that disgusting idol, and you became as disgusting as the idol you loved.

Jonah 1:2

to go to the great city of Nineveh and say to the people, "The LORD has seen your terrible sins. You are doomed!"

Matthew 11:15

If you have ears, pay attention!

Luke 12:13

A man in a crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, tell my brother to give me my share of what our father left us when he died."

Deuteronomy 2:7

The LORD has helped us and taken care of us during the past forty years that we have been in this huge desert. We've had everything we needed, and the LORD has blessed us and made us successful in whatever we have done.

Deuteronomy 33:3

The LORD loves the tribes of Israel, and he protects his people. They listen to his words and worship at his feet. *

Deuteronomy 8:2

Don't forget how the LORD your God has led you through the desert for the past forty years. He wanted to find out if you were truly willing to obey him and depend on him,

James 4:4

You people aren't faithful to God! Don't you know that if you love the world, you are God's enemies? And if you decide to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.

Revelation 2:4

But I do have something against you! And it is this: You don't have as much love as you used to.