Cross References

- Advertisements -




Jeremiah 2:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says: I remember the loyalty of your youth, your love as a bride – how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

See the chapter Copy

39 Cross References  

But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a permanent covenant with you.


‘ “Then I passed by you and saw you, and you were indeed at the age for love. So I spread the edge of my garment over you and covered your nakedness.  I pledged myself to you,  entered into a covenant with you #– #this is the declaration of the Lord God  #– #and you became mine.


The Lord said to me, ‘Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: “Obey the words of this covenant and carry them out.”


‘Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord   and there call out this word: “Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the Lord.


For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands.  He has watched over your journey through this immense wilderness. The Lord your God has been with you these past forty years, and you have lacked nothing.”


There I will give her vineyards back to her and make the Valley of Achor  , into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.


They stopped asking, ‘Where is the  Lord who brought us from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, through a land of drought and darkness, a land no one travelled through and where no one lived? ’


Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these forty years in the wilderness, so that he might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.


When Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and believed  in him and in his servant Moses.


Let anyone who has ears   listen.


Someone from the crowd said to him, ‘Teacher,  tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.’


‘Get up!  Go to the great city  of Nineveh  and preach against it  because their evil  has come up before me.’


Put the ram’s horn to your mouth! One like an eagle comes against the house of the  Lord, because they transgress my covenant and rebel against my law.


Yet she multiplied her acts of promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth when she acted like a prostitute in the land of Egypt


She didn’t give up her promiscuity that began in Egypt,  when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin nipples, and poured out their lust on her.


who acted like prostitutes in Egypt,  behaving promiscuously in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin nipples caressed.


In all your detestable practices and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth  when you were stark naked and thrashing around in your blood.


and go out to Ben Hinnom Valley  near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you.


‘Cry out loudly, don’t hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Tell my people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins.


Go out, young women of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown his mother placed on him on the day of his wedding   – the day of his heart’s rejoicing.


Wisdom calls out in the street; she makes her voice heard in the public squares.


Moses continued, ‘The Lord will give you meat to eat this evening and all the bread you want in the morning, for he has heard the complaints that you are raising against him. Who are we? Your complaints are not against us but against the Lord.’


You adulterous people!  Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.


But I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.


The word of the Lord came to me:


Haven’t you recently called to me, ‘My Father! You were my friend in my youth.


She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will think, ‘I will go back to my former husband, for then it was better for me than now.’


Indeed he loves the people.  , All your   holy ones are in your hand, and they assemble  at your feet. Each receives your words.


Who is this  coming up from the wilderness like columns of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from every fragrant powder of the merchant?


For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth; they will no longer be remembered by their names.


I discovered Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your ancestors like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, consecrated themselves to Shame,  , and became abhorrent, like the thing they loved.


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





Follow us:

Advertisements


Advertisements