Jeremiah 9:2

Good News Translation

I wish I had a place to stay in the desert where I could get away from my people. They are all unfaithful, a mob of traitors.

Cross References

Isaiah 59:3

You are guilty of lying, violence, and murder.

Jeremiah 12:1

“Lord, if I argued my case with you, you would prove to be right. Yet I must question you about matters of justice. Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why do dishonest people succeed?

Jeremiah 12:6

Even your relatives, members of your own family, have betrayed you; they join in the attacks against you. Do not trust them, even though they speak friendly words.”

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 23:10

The land is full of people unfaithful to the Lord; they live wicked lives and misuse their power. Because of the Lord's curse the land mourns and the pastures are dry.

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord says, “My people are stupid; they don't know me. They are like foolish children; they have no understanding. They are experts at doing what is evil, but failures at doing what is good.”

Jeremiah 5:1

People of Jerusalem, run through your streets! Look around! See for yourselves! Search the marketplaces! Can you find one person who does what is right and tries to be faithful to God? If you can, the Lord will forgive Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 5:11

The people of Israel and Judah have betrayed me completely. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 5:2

Even though you claim to worship the Lord, you do not mean what you say.

Hosea 4:2

They make promises and break them; they lie, murder, steal, and commit adultery. Crimes increase, and there is one murder after another.

Hosea 5:7

They have been unfaithful to the Lord; their children do not belong to him. So now they and their lands will soon be destroyed.

Hosea 6:7

“But as soon as they entered the land at Adam, they broke the covenant I had made with them.

Hosea 7:4

They are all treacherous and disloyal. Their hatred smolders like the fire in an oven, which is not stirred by the baker until the dough is ready to bake.

Micah 6:12

Your rich people exploit the poor, and all of you are liars.

Zephaniah 3:4

The prophets are irresponsible and treacherous; the priests defile what is sacred, and twist the law of God to their own advantage.

Malachi 2:11

The people of Judah have broken their promise to God and done a horrible thing in Jerusalem and all over the country. They have defiled the Temple which the Lord loves. Men have married women who worship foreign gods.

Malachi 2:14

You ask why he no longer accepts them. It is because he knows you have broken your promise to the wife you married when you were young. She was your partner, and you have broken your promise to her, although you promised before God that you would be faithful to her.

James 4:4

Unfaithful people! Don't you know that to be the world's friend means to be God's enemy? If you want to be the world's friend, you make yourself God's enemy.

Judges 2:10

That whole generation also died, and the next generation forgot the Lord and what he had done for Israel.