Jeremiah 2:2

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“Jeremiah, go and speak to the people of Jerusalem. Tell them that this is what the Lord says: “‘At the time you were a young nation, you were faithful to me. You followed me like a young bride. You followed me through the desert, through a land that had never been used for farmland.

Cross References

Ezekiel 16:60

But I will remember the agreement we made when you were young. I made an agreement with you that will continue forever!

Ezekiel 16:8

I looked you over. I saw you were ready for love, so I spread my clothes over you and covered your nakedness. I promised to marry you. I made the agreement with you, and you became mine.’” This is what the Lord GOD said.

Jeremiah 11:6

The Lord said to me, “Jeremiah, tell this message in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Listen to the words of this agreement, and then obey these laws.

Jeremiah 7:2

“Jeremiah, stand at the gate of the Lord’s house. Teach this message at the gate: “‘Hear the message from the Lord, all you people of the nation of Judah. All you who come through these gates to worship the Lord, hear this message.

Deuteronomy 2:7

Remember that the Lord your God has blessed you in everything you have done. He knows about everything that happened on the trip through this great desert. The Lord your God has been with you these 40 years. You have always had everything you needed.’

Hosea 2:15

There I will give her vineyards. I will give her Achor Valley as a doorway of hope. Then she will answer as she did when she came out of the land of Egypt.”

Jeremiah 2:6

Your ancestors did not say, ‘The Lord brought us out of Egypt. He led us through the desert, through a dry and rocky land. He led us through a dark and dangerous land. No one lives there; people don’t even travel through that land. But the Lord led us through that land. So where is he now?’

Deuteronomy 8:2

And you must remember the entire trip that the Lord your God has led you through these 40 years in the desert. He was testing you. He wanted to make you humble. He wanted to know what is in your heart. He wanted to know if you would obey his commands.

Exodus 14:31

The Israelites saw the great power of the Lord when he defeated the Egyptians. So the people feared and respected the Lord, and they began to trust the Lord and his servant Moses.

Matthew 11:15

You people who hear me, listen!

Luke 12:13

One of the men in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, our father just died and left some things for us. Tell my brother to share them with me.”

Jonah 1:2

“Nineveh is a big city. I have heard about the many evil things the people are doing there. So go there and tell them to stop doing such evil things.”

Hosea 8:1

“Put the trumpet to your lips and give the warning. Be like an eagle over the Lord’s house. The Israelites have broken my agreement. They have not obeyed my law.

Ezekiel 23:19

But Oholibah thought about her time as a prostitute in Egypt when she was young, and she turned to even more prostitution.

Ezekiel 23:8

Besides that, she never stopped her love affair with Egypt. Egypt made love to her when she was a young girl. Egypt was the first lover to touch her young breasts. Egypt poured his untrue love on her.

Ezekiel 23:3

They became prostitutes in Egypt while they were still young girls. That’s where they first let men touch and handle their young breasts.

Ezekiel 16:22

You left me and did all those terrible things. You never remembered what happened when you were young. You did not remember that you were naked and kicking in blood when I found you.

Jeremiah 19:2

Go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the front of the Potsherd Gate. I have a message I want you to announce there.

Isaiah 58:1

Shout as loud as you can and don’t stop. Shout like a trumpet! Tell the people what they did wrong. Tell the family of Jacob about their sins.

Song of Solomon 3:11

Women of Zion, come out and see King Solomon. See the crown his mother put on him the day he was married, the day he was so happy!

Proverbs 1:20

Listen! Wisdom is shouting in the streets. She is crying out in the marketplace.

Exodus 16:8

Then Moses said, “In the evening the Lord will give you meat to eat, and in the morning you will have all the bread you want. The Lord will do this because he has heard your complaining, which was against him, not us. What can we do? We do only what he tells us to do, so your complaints are really against the Lord.”

James 4:4

You people are not faithful to God! You should know that loving what the world has is the same as hating God. So anyone who wants to be friends with this evil world becomes God’s enemy.

Revelation 2:4

“But I have this against you: You have left the love you had in the beginning.

Psalm 129:1

All my life enemies have attacked me. Say it again, Israel.

Jeremiah 2:1

The Lord’s message came to me:

Jeremiah 3:4

But didn’t you just call me ‘Father’? Didn’t you say, ‘You have been my friend since I was a child’?

Hosea 2:7

She will run after her lovers, but she will not be able to catch up with them. She will look for her lovers, but she will not be able to find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my husband. Life was better for me when I was with him. Life was better then than it is now.’

Deuteronomy 33:3

Yes, the Lord loves his people. All his holy people are in his hand. They sit at his feet and learn his teachings!

Song of Solomon 3:6

Who is this woman coming from the desert with this large group of people? The dust rises behind them like clouds of smoke from burning myrrh and frankincense and other spices.

Hosea 2:17

I will take the names of those false gods out of her mouth. Then people will not use those names again.

Hosea 9:10

“At the time I, the Lord, found Israel, they were like fresh grapes in the desert. They were like the first figs on a fig tree at the beginning of the season. But when they came to Baal Peor, they changed. So I had to cut them off like rotten fruit. They became like the terrible things that they loved.

Hosea 11:1

The Lord said, “I loved Israel when he was a child, and I called my son out of Egypt.