Jeremiah 2:17

Modern English Version

Have you not brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken the Lord your God when He led you in the way?

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:9

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your fathers and serve Him with a whole heart and with a willing spirit, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will abandon you forever.

2 Chronicles 15:2

and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with Him. If you all seek Him, He will be found with you. But if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

Job 34:27

because they turned back from Him and would not consider any of His ways,

Job 4:8

Just like I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.

Psalm 107:7

He led them forth by a straight way, That they might go to a habitable city.

Psalm 136:16

to Him who led His people through the wilderness, for His mercy endures forever;

Psalm 77:20

You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Proverbs 15:10

Discipline is severe for him who forsakes the way, and he who hates reproof will die.

Isaiah 1:4

Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they are estranged and backward.

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing, and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 13:22

And if you say in your heart, “Why have these things come upon me?” for the greatness of your iniquity your skirts have been removed and your heels made bare.

Jeremiah 19:4

Because they have forsaken Me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with the blood of the innocent,

Jeremiah 2:13

For My people have committed two evils. They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backslidings will reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter for you to have forsaken the Lord your God, and the fear of Me is not in you, says the Lord God of Hosts.

Jeremiah 4:18

Your way and your deeds have procured these things to you. This is your wickedness. How bitter it is! How it touches your heart!”

Jeremiah 44:3

because of their wickedness, which they have committed to provoke Me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods whom they did not know, neither they nor you nor your fathers.

Jeremiah 5:25

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you.

Ezekiel 39:24

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions, I have done to them and hid My face from them.

Hosea 13:9

O Israel, you are destroyed, but in Me is your help.

Micah 1:5

All this because of the transgression of Jacob and because of the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

Numbers 32:23

“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.

Deuteronomy 32:10

He found him in a desert land and in the howling waste of a wilderness; He led him about, He instructed him, He protected him like the pupil of His eye.

Deuteronomy 32:19

When the Lord saw it, He despised them, because of the provocation of His sons and daughters.