Jeremiah 2:17

Good News Translation

Israel, you brought this on yourself! You deserted me, the Lord your God, while I was leading you along the way.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:9

And to Solomon he said, “My son, I charge you to acknowledge your father's God and to serve him with an undivided heart and a willing mind. He knows all our thoughts and desires. If you go to him, he will accept you; but if you turn away from him, he will abandon you forever.

2 Chronicles 15:2

and he went to meet King Asa. He called out, “Listen to me, King Asa, and all you people of Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you as long as you are with him. If you look for him, he will let you find him, but if you turn away, he will abandon you.

Job 34:27

because they have stopped following him and ignored all his commands.

Job 4:8

I have seen people plow fields of evil and plant wickedness like seed; now they harvest wickedness and evil.

Psalm 107:7

He led them by a straight road to a city where they could live.

Psalm 136:16

He led his people through the desert; his love is eternal.

Psalm 77:20

You led your people like a shepherd, with Moses and Aaron in charge.

Proverbs 15:10

If you do what is wrong, you will be severely punished; you will die if you do not let yourself be corrected.

Isaiah 1:4

You are doomed, you sinful nation, you corrupt and evil people! Your sins drag you down! You have rejected the Lord, the holy God of Israel, and have turned your backs on him.

Isaiah 59:13

We have rebelled against you, rejected you, and refused to follow you. We have oppressed others and turned away from you. Our thoughts are false; our words are lies.

Jeremiah 13:22

If you ask why all this has happened to you—why your clothes have been torn off and you have been raped—it is because your sin is so terrible.

Jeremiah 19:4

I am going to do this because the people have abandoned me and defiled this place by offering sacrifices here to other gods—gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah have known anything about. They have filled this place with the blood of innocent people,

Jeremiah 2:13

for my people have committed two sins: they have turned away from me, the spring of fresh water, and they have dug cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own evil will punish you, and your turning from me will condemn you. You will learn how bitter and wrong it is to abandon me, the Lord your God, and no longer to remain faithful to me. I, the Sovereign Lord Almighty, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 4:18

Judah, you have brought this on yourself by the way you have lived and by the things you have done. Your sin has caused this suffering; it has stabbed you through the heart.

Jeremiah 44:3

because their people had done evil and had made me angry. They offered sacrifices to other gods and served gods that neither they nor you nor your ancestors ever worshiped.

Jeremiah 5:25

Instead, your sins have kept these good things from you.

Ezekiel 39:24

I gave them what they deserved for their uncleanness and their wickedness, and I turned away from them.”

Hosea 13:9

“I will destroy you, people of Israel! Then who can help you?

Micah 1:5

All this will happen because the people of Israel have sinned and rebelled against God. Who is to blame for Israel's rebellion? Samaria, the capital city itself! Who is guilty of idolatry in Judah? Jerusalem itself!

Numbers 32:23

But if you do not keep your promise, I warn you that you will be sinning against the Lord. Make no mistake about it; you will be punished for your sin.

Deuteronomy 32:10

“He found them wandering through the desert, a desolate, wind-swept wilderness. He protected them and cared for them, as he would protect himself.

Deuteronomy 32:19

“When the Lord saw this, he was angry and rejected his sons and daughters.