Jeremiah 2:27

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You gave us birth. For they turned their back to Me, and not the face. But in the time of their evil, they will say, Arise, and save us!

Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:6

For our fathers have acted unfaithfully and did the evil in the eyes of Jehovah our God, and they have forsaken Him and turned their faces away from the temple of Jehovah, and have given their backs.

Isaiah 26:16

Jehovah, they visited You in distress; they poured out a whisper; Your chastening was to them.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are at once being foolish and being stupid; their tree is an instruction of vanities.

Jeremiah 18:17

I will scatter them like an east wind before the enemy; I will make them see My back, and not My face in the day of their calamity.

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild ass used to the wilderness. In the passion of her desire she snuffs up the wind in her time. Who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not tire themselves; in her month they will find her.

Jeremiah 22:23

One dwelling in Lebanon, nested in the cedars, How gracious will you be when pangs come to you, the pain as one giving birth!

Jeremiah 3:9

And it happened, from the vileness of her fornication she defiled the land, and fornicated with stones and with trees.

Jeremiah 30:7

Alas! For that day is great, for none is like it. And a time of trouble it is for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it.

Jeremiah 32:33

And they have turned the back to Me, and not the face; though I taught them, rising up early and teaching, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

Jeremiah 37:3

And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal, the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Intercede now for us to Jehovah our God.

Jeremiah 42:2

And they said to Jeremiah the prophet, Please let our plea fall before you; and pray for us to Jehovah your God, for all this remnant, (for we are left over, but a few of many, as your eyes see us),

Ezekiel 23:35

Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah, Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, so also you bear your wickedness and your adulteries.

Ezekiel 8:16

And he brought me into the inner court of the house of Jehovah. And, behold, at the opening of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of Jehovah, and their faces eastward. And they bowed themselves eastward to the sun.

Daniel 9:7

O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us the shame of our faces, as it is this day to the men of Judah, and to those living in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near and who are afar through all the lands where You have driven them for their unfaithfulness which they have done against You.

Hosea 4:12

My people seek advice by their wood, and their rod declares to them. For the spirit of fornication has led them astray, and they fornicated from under their God.

Hosea 5:15

I will go; I will return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face. In the oppressing one they will seek Me diligently.

Hosea 7:14

And they have not cried to Me with their heart when they howled on their beds. They gather themselves for grain and new wine; they turn against Me.