Jeremiah 2:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I brought you here to my land, where food is abundant, but you made my land filthy with your sins.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:25

They captured strong cities and rich farmland; they took furnished houses, as well as cisterns, vineyards, olive orchards, and numerous fruit trees. They ate till they were satisfied, and they celebrated your abundant blessings.

Nehemiah 9:26

In spite of this, they rebelled and disobeyed your laws. They killed your prophets, who warned them to turn back to you, and they cursed your name.

Isaiah 19:25

then the LORD All-Powerful will bless them by saying, “The Egyptians are my people. I created the Assyrians and chose the Israelites.”

Jeremiah 16:18

I will punish you double for your sins, because you have made my own land disgusting. You have filled it with lifeless idols that remind me of dead bodies.

Jeremiah 3:1

The LORD said to the people of Israel: If a divorced woman marries, can her first husband ever marry her again? No, because this would pollute the land. But you have more gods than a prostitute has lovers. Why should I take you back?

Jeremiah 3:2

Just try to find one hilltop where you haven't gone to worship other gods by having sex. You sat beside the road like a robber in ambush, except you offered yourself to every passer-by. Your sins of unfaithfulness have polluted the land.

Jeremiah 3:9

The kingdom of Judah wasn't sorry for being a prostitute, and she didn't care that she had made both herself and the land unclean by worshipping idols of stone and wood.

Jeremiah 32:23

But when our ancestors took over the land, they did not obey you. And now you have punished Israel with disaster.

Jeremiah 32:30

The kings and the officials, the priests and the prophets, and everyone else in Israel and Judah have turned from me and made me angry by worshipping idols. Again and again I have tried to teach my people to obey me, but they refuse to be corrected. I am going to get rid of Jerusalem, because its people have done nothing but evil.

Ezekiel 20:24

because they had disobeyed my laws and ignored my teachings; they had disgraced my Sabbath and worshipped the idols their ancestors had made.

Ezekiel 20:28

by offering sacrifices, incense, and wine to gods on every hill and under every large tree. I was very angry, because they did these things in the land I had given them!

Ezekiel 20:6

I swore that I would rescue them from Egypt and lead them to a land I had already chosen. This land was rich with milk and honey and was the most splendid land of all.

Ezekiel 23:35

You have completely rejected me, and so I promise that you will be punished for the disgusting things you did as a prostitute.

Ezekiel 36:17

Ezekiel, son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own country, they made the land unclean by the way they behaved, just as a woman's monthly period makes her unclean.

Hosea 9:3

and you will have to leave the land of the LORD. Some of you will go to Egypt; others will go to Assyria and eat unclean food.

Micah 2:10

Get out of here, you crooks! You'll find no rest here. You're not fit to belong to the LORD's people, and you will be destroyed.

Numbers 13:27

and said: Look at this fruit! The land we explored is rich with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 21:23

you must not let it hang there overnight. Bury it the same day, because the dead body of a criminal will bring God's curse on the land. The LORD your God is giving this land to you, so don't make it unclean by leaving the bodies of executed criminals on display.

Deuteronomy 32:9

but the LORD himself takes care of Israel.

Deuteronomy 6:18

and live in a way that pleases him. Then you will be able to go in and take this good land from your enemies, just as he promised your ancestors.