Jeremiah 12:7

Contemporary English Version 1995

I loved my people and chose them as my very own. But now I will reject them and hand them over to their enemies.

Cross References

Isaiah 2:6

Our Lord, you have deserted your people, Israel, because they follow customs of nations from the east. They worship Philistine gods and are close friends of foreigners.

Jeremiah 11:15

Then the Lord told me to say to the people of Judah: You are my chosen people, but you have no right to be here in my temple, doing such evil things. The sacrifices you offer me won't protect you from disaster, so stop celebrating.

Hosea 9:15

Israel, I first began to hate you because you did evil at Gilgal. Now I will chase you out of my house. No longer will I love you; your leaders betrayed me.

Luke 21:24

Some of them will be killed by swords. Others will be carried off to foreign countries. Jerusalem will be overrun by foreign nations until their time comes to an end.

Joel 3:2

Then in Judgment Valley I will bring together the nations that scattered my people Israel everywhere in the world, and I will bring charges against those nations. They divided up my land

Joel 2:15

Sound the trumpet on Zion! Call the people together. Show your sorrow by going without food.

Ezekiel 24:21

he is ready to destroy the temple in which you take such pride and which makes you feel so safe. Your children who now live in Jerusalem will be killed.

Jeremiah 51:5

Everyone in Israel and Judah is guilty. But I, the Lord All-Powerful, their holy God, have not abandoned them.

Jeremiah 7:29

Shave your head bald and throw away the hair. Sing a funeral song on top of a barren hill. You people have made me angry, and I have abandoned you.

Jeremiah 7:14

Don't think this temple will protect you. Long ago I told your ancestors to build it and worship me here, but now I have decided to tear it down, just as I destroyed Shiloh.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you rejected Judah, Lord? Do you hate Jerusalem? Why did you strike down Judah with a fatal wound? We had hoped for peace and a time of healing, but all we got was terror.

Jeremiah 17:4

You will lose the land that I gave you, and I will make you slaves in a foreign country, because you have made my anger blaze up like a fire that won't stop burning.

Jeremiah 23:33

Jeremiah, when a prophet or a priest or anyone else comes to you and asks, “Does the Lord have news for us?” tell them, “You people are a nuisance to the Lord, and he will get rid of you.”

Jeremiah 23:39

I will pick you up and throw you far away. And I will abandon this city of Jerusalem that I gave to your ancestors.

Hosea 11:1

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

Deuteronomy 33:12

The Lord Most High loves you, tribe of Benjamin. He will live among your hills and protect you.

2 Kings 21:14

I will even get rid of my people who survive. They will be defeated and robbed by their enemies.

Psalm 78:62

God took out his anger on his chosen ones and let them be killed by enemy swords.

Psalm 106:40

Finally, Lord, you were angry and terribly disgusted with your people.

Jeremiah 22:5

But if you ignore me, I promise in my own name that this palace will lie in ruins.