Jeremiah 2:19

Good News Translation

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.”

Cross References

1 Kings 18:18

“I'm not the troublemaker,” Elijah answered. “You are—you and your father. You are disobeying the Lord's commands and worshiping the idols of Baal.

2 Chronicles 12:5

Shemaiah the prophet went to King Rehoboam and the Judean leaders who had gathered in Jerusalem to escape Shishak. He said to them, “This is the Lord's message to you: ‘You have abandoned me, so now I have abandoned you to Shishak.’”

2 Chronicles 21:10

Edom has been independent of Judah ever since. During this same period the city of Libnah also revolted, because Jehoram had abandoned the Lord, the God of his ancestors.

2 Chronicles 25:16

“Since when,” Amaziah interrupted, “have we made you adviser to the king? Stop talking, or I'll have you killed!” The prophet stopped, but not before saying, “Now I know that God has decided to destroy you because you have done all this and have ignored my advice.”

Psalm 36:1

Sin speaks to the wicked deep in their hearts; they reject God and do not have reverence for him.

Exodus 33:6

So after they left Mount Sinai, the people of Israel no longer wore jewelry.

Proverbs 1:31

So then, you will get what you deserve, and your own actions will make you sick.

Proverbs 1:32

Inexperienced people die because they reject wisdom. Stupid people are destroyed by their own lack of concern.

Proverbs 5:22

The sins of the wicked are a trap. They get caught in the net of their own sin.

Isaiah 3:9

Their prejudices will be held against them. They sin as openly as the people of Sodom did. They are doomed, and they have brought it on themselves.

Isaiah 5:5

“Here is what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge around it, break down the wall that protects it, and let wild animals eat it and trample it down.

Isaiah 50:1

The Lord says, “Do you think I sent my people away like a man who divorces his wife? Where, then, are the papers of divorce? Do you think I sold you into captivity like a man who sells his children as slaves? No, you went away captive because of your sins; you were sent away because of your crimes.

Jeremiah 1:16

I will punish my people because they have sinned; they have abandoned me, have offered sacrifices to other gods, and have made idols and worshiped them.

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 2:17

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

Jeremiah 3:22

Return, all of you who have turned away from the Lord; he will heal you and make you faithful. You say, “Yes, we are coming to the Lord because he is our God.

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 5:22

I am the Lord; why don't you fear me? Why don't you tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary of the sea, a permanent boundary that it cannot cross. The sea may toss, but it cannot go beyond it; the waves may roar, but they cannot break through.

Jeremiah 5:24

You never thought to honor me, even though I send the autumn rains and the spring rains and give you the harvest season each year.

Jeremiah 5:6

That is why lions from the forest will kill them; wolves from the desert will tear them to pieces, and leopards will prowl through their towns. If those people go out, they will be torn apart because their sins are numerous and time after time they have turned from God.

Jeremiah 7:19

But am I really the one they are hurting? No, they are hurting themselves and bringing shame on themselves.

Jeremiah 8:5

Why then, my people, do you turn away from me without ever turning back? You cling to your idols and refuse to return to me.

Ezekiel 23:30

have brought this on you. You were a prostitute for the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

Ezekiel 39:24

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

Hosea 11:7

They insist on turning away from me. They will cry out because of the yoke that is on them, but no one will lift it from them.

Hosea 13:9

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

Hosea 14:1

Return to the Lord your God, people of Israel. Your sin has made you stumble and fall.

Hosea 4:16

The people of Israel are as stubborn as mules. How can I feed them like lambs in a meadow?

Hosea 5:5

The arrogance of the people of Israel cries out against them. Their sins make them stumble and fall, and the people of Judah fall with them.

Hosea 7:2

It never enters their heads that I will remember all this evil; but their sins surround them, and I cannot avoid seeing them.”

Hosea 9:1

People of Israel, stop celebrating your festivals like pagans. You have turned away from your God and have been unfaithful to him. All over the land you have sold yourselves like prostitutes to the god Baal and have loved the grain you thought he paid you with!

Amos 8:10

I will turn your festivals into funerals and change your glad songs into cries of grief. I will make you shave your heads and wear sackcloth, and you will be like parents mourning for their only child. That day will be bitter to the end.

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!

Zechariah 7:11

“But my people stubbornly refused to listen. They closed their minds

Romans 3:18

nor have they learned reverence for God.”

Judges 10:13

But you still left me and worshiped other gods, so I am not going to rescue you again.