Jeremiah 2:17

God's Word

You have brought this on yourself by abandoning the Lord your God when he led you on his way.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:9

“And you, my son Solomon, learn to know your father’s God. Serve the Lord wholeheartedly and willingly because he searches every heart and understands every thought ⌞we have⌟. If you dedicate your life to serving him, he will accept you. But if you abandon him, he will reject you from then on.

2 Chronicles 15:2

Azariah went to Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all you men from Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you will dedicate your lives to serving him, he will accept you. But if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

Job 34:27

because they turned away from following him and didn’t consider any of his ways.

Job 4:8

Whenever I saw those who plowed wickedness and planted misery, they gathered its harvest.

Psalm 107:7

He led them on a road that went straight to an inhabited city.

Psalm 136:16

Give thanks to the one who led his people through the desert— because his mercy endures forever.

Psalm 77:20

Like a shepherd, you led your people. You had Moses and Aaron take them by the hand.

Proverbs 15:10

Discipline is a terrible ⌞burden⌟ to anyone who leaves the ⌞right⌟ path. Anyone who hates a warning will die.

Isaiah 1:4

“How horrible it will be for a nation that sins. ⌞Its⌟ people are loaded down with guilt. They are descendants of evildoers and destructive children. They have abandoned the Lord. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have turned their backs on him.

Isaiah 59:13

We have rebelled and denied the Lord. We have turned away from our God. We have spoken about oppression and revolt. We have conceived and uttered lies in our hearts.

Jeremiah 13:22

If you ask yourself, “Why do these things happen to me?” it’s because you have so many sins. Your clothes have been torn off and your limbs are bare.

Jeremiah 19:4

“The people, their ancestors, and the kings of Judah have abandoned me. They have made this place unrecognizable by burning incense as an offering to other gods that they hadn’t heard of. They have filled this place with the blood of innocent people.

Jeremiah 2:13

“My people have done two things wrong. They have abandoned me, the fountain of life-giving water. They have also dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will correct you, and your unfaithful ways will punish you. You should know and see how evil and bitter it is for you if you abandon the Lord your God and do not fear me,” declares the Almighty Lord of Armies.

Jeremiah 4:18

“You brought this on yourself. This is your punishment. It is bitter. It breaks your heart.”

Jeremiah 44:3

It is because their people did evil, and they made me angry. They went to burn incense and serve other gods that neither you nor your ancestors heard of.

Jeremiah 5:25

Your wickedness has turned these things away. Your sins have kept good things away from you.

Ezekiel 39:24

I paid them back for their uncleanness and their sins, and I hid my face from them.

Hosea 13:9

You are destroying yourself, Israel. You are against me, your helper.

Micah 1:5

All this is because of Jacob’s crime and Israel’s sin. What is Jacob’s crime? Isn’t it Samaria? What is Judah’s worship place? Isn’t it Jerusalem?

Numbers 32:23

“If you don’t do all these things, you will be sinning against the Lord. You can be sure that you will be punished for your sin.

Deuteronomy 32:10

He found his people in a desert land, in a barren place where animals howl. He guarded them, took care of them, and protected them because they were helpless.

Deuteronomy 32:19

The Lord saw this and rejected them, because his own sons and daughters had made him angry.