Jeremiah 2:25

Good News Translation

Israel, don't wear your feet out, or let your throat become dry from chasing after other gods. But you say, ‘No! I can't turn back. I have loved foreign gods and will go after them.’”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:22

When his troubles were at their worst, that man Ahaz sinned against the Lord more than ever.

2 Chronicles 28:23

He offered sacrifices to the gods of the Syrians, who had defeated him. He said, “The Syrian gods helped the kings of Syria, so if I sacrifice to them, they may help me too.” This brought disaster on him and on his nation.

Isaiah 2:6

O God, you have forsaken your people, the descendants of Jacob! The land is full of magic practices from the East and from Philistia. The people follow foreign customs.

Isaiah 57:10

You wear yourselves out looking for other gods, but you never give up. You think your obscene idols give you strength, and so you never grow weak.

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when people you thought were your friends conquer you and rule over you? You will be in pain like a woman giving birth.

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 14:10

The Lord says about these people, “They love to run away from me, and they will not control themselves. So I am not pleased with them. I will remember the wrongs they have done and punish them because of their sins.”

Jeremiah 18:12

They will answer, ‘No, why should we? We will all be just as stubborn and evil as we want to be.’”

Jeremiah 2:31

People of Israel, listen to what I am saying. Have I been like a desert to you, like a dark and dangerous land? Why, then, do you say that you will do as you please, that you will never come back to me?

Jeremiah 22:20

People of Jerusalem, go to Lebanon and shout, go to the land of Bashan and cry; call out from the mountains of Moab, because all your allies have been defeated.

Jeremiah 22:21

The Lord spoke to you when you were prosperous, but you refused to listen. That is what you've done all your life; you never would obey the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:13

Only admit that you are guilty and that you have rebelled against the Lord, your God. Confess that under every green tree you have given your love to foreign gods and that you have not obeyed my commands. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Jeremiah 44:17

We will do everything that we said we would. We will offer sacrifices to our goddess, the Queen of Heaven, and we will pour out wine offerings to her, just as we and our ancestors, our king and our leaders, used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty of food, we were prosperous, and had no troubles.

Lamentations 1:2

All night long she cries; tears run down her cheeks. Of all her former friends, not one is left to comfort her. Her allies have betrayed her and are all against her now.

Lamentations 4:4

They let their babies die of hunger and thirst; children are begging for food that no one will give them.

Ezekiel 20:32

You have made up your minds that you want to be like the other nations, like the people who live in other countries and worship trees and rocks. But that will never be.

Hosea 2:3

If she does not, I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will make her like a dry and barren land, and she will die of thirst.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It's useless to serve God. What's the use of doing what he says or of trying to show the Lord Almighty that we are sorry for what we have done?

Luke 15:22

But the father called to his servants. ‘Hurry!’ he said. ‘Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet.

Luke 16:24

So he called out, ‘Father Abraham! Take pity on me, and send Lazarus to dip his finger in some water and cool off my tongue, because I am in great pain in this fire!’

Romans 8:24

For it was by hope that we were saved; but if we see what we hope for, then it is not really hope. For who of us hopes for something we see?

Deuteronomy 28:48

So then, you will serve the enemies that the Lord is going to send against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, and naked—in need of everything. The Lord will oppress you harshly until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 32:16

Their idolatry made the Lord jealous; the evil they did made him angry.