Jeremiah 5:3

Good News Translation

Surely the Lord looks for faithfulness. He struck you, but you paid no attention; he crushed you, but you refused to learn. You were stubborn and would not turn from your sins.

Cross References

Genesis 19:34

The next day the older daughter said to her sister, “I slept with him last night; now let's get him drunk again tonight, and you sleep with him. Then each of us will have a child by our father.”

1 Kings 13:33

King Jeroboam of Israel still did not turn from his evil ways but continued to choose priests from ordinary families to serve at the altars he had built. He ordained as priest anyone who wanted to be one.

2 Kings 1:13

Once more the king sent an officer with fifty men. He went up the hill, fell on his knees in front of Elijah, and pleaded, “Man of God, be merciful to me and my men. Spare our lives!

2 Chronicles 16:9

The Lord keeps close watch over the whole world, to give strength to those whose hearts are loyal to him. You have acted foolishly, and so from now on you will always be at war.”

2 Chronicles 28:22

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

Psalm 51:6

Sincerity and truth are what you require; fill my mind with your wisdom.

Psalm 51:8

Let me hear the sounds of joy and gladness; and though you have crushed me and broken me, I will be happy once again.

Psalm 55:20

My former companion attacked his friends; he broke his promises.

Proverbs 21:29

Righteous people are sure of themselves; the wicked have to pretend as best they can.

Proverbs 22:12

The Lord sees to it that truth is kept safe by disproving the words of liars.

Proverbs 23:35

“I must have been hit,” you will say; “I must have been beaten up, but I don't remember it. Why can't I wake up? I need another drink.”

Proverbs 27:22

Even if you beat fools half to death, you still can't beat their foolishness out of them.

Isaiah 26:11

Your enemies do not know that you will punish them. Lord, put them to shame and let them suffer; let them suffer the punishment you have prepared. Show them how much you love your people.

Isaiah 42:25

So he made us feel the force of his anger and suffer the violence of war. Like fire his anger burned throughout Israel, but we never knew what was happening; we learned nothing at all from it.

Isaiah 48:4

I knew that you would prove to be stubborn, as rigid as iron and unyielding as bronze.

Isaiah 9:13

The people of Israel have not repented; even though the Lord Almighty has punished them, they have not returned to him.

Jeremiah 15:7

In every town in the land I threw you to the wind like straw. I destroyed you, my people, I killed your children because you did not stop your evil ways.

Jeremiah 17:23

Their ancestors did not listen to me or pay any attention. Instead, they became stubborn; they would not obey me or learn from me.

Jeremiah 19:15

that the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, had said, “I am going to bring on this city and on every nearby town all the punishment that I said I would, because you are stubborn and will not listen to what I say.”

Jeremiah 2:30

I punished you, but it did no good; you would not let me correct you. Like a raging lion, you have murdered your prophets.

Jeremiah 3:3

That is why the rains were held back, and the spring showers did not come. You even look like a prostitute; you have no shame.

Jeremiah 32:19

You make wise plans and do mighty things; you see everything that people do, and you reward them according to their actions.

Jeremiah 44:10

But to this day you have not humbled yourselves. You have not honored me or lived according to all the laws that I gave you and your ancestors.

Jeremiah 7:26

Yet no one listened or paid any attention. Instead, you became more stubborn and rebellious than your ancestors.

Jeremiah 7:28

You will tell them that their nation does not obey me, the Lord their God, or learn from their punishment. Faithfulness is dead. No longer is it even talked about.

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 2:4

They are stubborn and do not respect me, so I am sending you to tell them what I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying to them.

Ezekiel 24:13

Jerusalem, your immoral actions have defiled you. Although I tried to purify you, you remained defiled. You will not be pure again until you have felt the full force of my anger.

Daniel 9:13

giving us all the punishment described in the Law of Moses. But even now, O Lord our God, we have not tried to please you by turning from our sins or by following your truth.

Leviticus 26:23

“If after all of this punishment you still do not listen to me, but continue to defy me,

Amos 4:10

“I sent a plague on you like the one I sent on Egypt. I killed your young men in battle and took your horses away. I filled your nostrils with the stink of dead bodies in your camps. Still you did not come back to me.

Amos 4:11

“I destroyed some of you as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Those of you who survived were like a burning stick saved from a fire. Still you did not come back to me,” says the Lord.

Amos 4:6

“I was the one who brought famine to all your cities, yet you did not come back to me.

Amos 4:8

Weak with thirst, the people of several cities went to a city where they hoped to find water, but there was not enough to drink. Still you did not come back to me.

Amos 4:9

“I sent a scorching wind to dry up your crops. The locusts ate up all your gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me.

Zephaniah 3:7

I thought that then my people would have reverence for me and accept my discipline, that they would never forget the lesson I taught them. But soon they were behaving as badly as ever.

Romans 2:2

We know that God is right when he judges the people who do such things as these.

Hebrews 12:9

In the case of our human fathers, they punished us and we respected them. How much more, then, should we submit to our spiritual Father and live!